[Gllug] Debian woody and lost network device

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 25 Oct, Nordlund, Niko wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Newbie in trouble. I installed Debian Woody on my old HP desktop with Intel
> 82815 on-board graphics card (uses i810 driver). The problem being that the
> Woody kernel does not work well with agpgar (Accelerated Graphics Port). I
> want to run Gnome on the desktop, so I was forced to compile kernel 2.4.19.
> Compile went OK following a few how-to's. Now I have X up and running, but
> the problem is that the Ethernet connection disappeared. And the eth0 was
> working just fine before!
> 
> "dmesg | grep eth" does not return any lines
> "locate eth0" does not return any lines
> 
> I was wondering if someone could point me to the right direction.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
  There is no need to repeatedly recompile your kernel using Debian Woody.
Just log in to a text screen as root,

modconf <enter>

You will find a long list of kernel modules, in groups according to type,
including card drivers, AGP, filesystems, and various other options. Select
or deselect as many as you need.

man modconf

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Chris Bell

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