[Sussex] Curious happenings doing gentoo kernel upgrade?

[Paul Turner]

John D. wrote:

> Ho hum!
>
> Did the daily "emerge -uD world" yesterday, which kicked out a kernel 
> upgrade (from 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to 2.6.11-gentoo-r4). So I just did my 
> "usual" and opened the gentoo kernel upgrade guide to follow that and 
> having done the cd, made the new symlink, and run genkernel, 
> everything seemed to go fine.
>
> When I try to boot the new kernel it starts to "play up" inasfaras the 
> natsemi module for my ethernet card starts then fails. It's still 
> showing in the modules autoload file.
>
> What do I need to check/look into to sort that?
>
> Erm, I did also try to see if things would still work by trying to 
> emerge the nvidia kernel to compile the module for that kernel version 
> but it just throws out a "gcc mismatch" which I don't understand either.


Has it upgraded your system to gcc4?  I don't know as I'm not using 
gentoo at the moment, but has similar issues in the past when gcc 
changed.  Full recompile (almost).

Hopefully someone else here can shed more light on this?

Regards Paul.

>
> for the moment I've reverted to using the 2.6.10 kernel, so I can use 
> the system.
>
> Any ideas please ???
>
> Cheers
>
> John D.
>
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