[Linux-disciples] df weirdness

[Adam Kessel]

Did it fix the df problem?

Just based on my experience, later kernels don't autodetect a certain
class of network devices, but rely on other software to do it.  If you
installed the latest Mandrake, for example, it should recognize your card
(from /proc/pci) and load the correct driver (comes with kernel 2.6.3).

The new Debian Installer apparently has come a long way in terms of
hardware autodetection, but that's not what you've got in Woody.

You probably just need to figure out what module to load; it's usually
pretty easy to google your network card info from /proc/pci and "linux"
and get the answer.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:31:06PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:48:06PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > I wouldn't want to use the system long with those results. Try booting
> > into a new kernel (you might even try a 2.6.5 kernel from unstable) and
> > see if you get the same results.
> 
> I upgraded to 2.6.5, but now my network card on that machine
> doesn't work. This is a very regular and very frustrating
> pattern: every time I've upgraded from the 2.2 kernels in
> Woody, I've lost networking. This despite the fact that the
> three computers I've upgraded to 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6 have all
> used different network cards; this time round it's a LinkSys
> card. I'm just using the stock kernel from the
> kernel-image-2.6-[blah] package.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good way to fix this problem in full
> generality? 2.2 seems to work great with networks out of the
> box, but kernels since then don't seem to.
> 
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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