[mpls-linux-general] (no subject)

[Sumeet A. <sum...@ho...>]

To James and all who have had a problem of network card not getting detected 
(and knows a solution to it):

A similar post was posted as "Re: network card 2002-03-07 04:58 ".

I am trying to install mpls-linux 1.0 in my linux box-RH-2.4.18.
I could add the patch and compile properly. My 'old kernel' still detects 
the network card (I have only 1), but when I boot in the new mpls kernel, my 
network card fails at boot time, with error 'Bringing up interface eth0: 
eth0 initialization delay [FAILED]'.

And yes....I did do
1. 'make menuconfig'
2. "make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install"
3. Copy the new kernal image(bzImage) into /boot directory
4. Modify the /etc/lilo.conf file and run 'lilo' on command prompt.

I got this piece of information from 
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4 which says:
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" If the kernel fails to load a module (say loadable module for network card 
or other devices), then you may want to try to build the driver for device 
right into
the kernel. Sometimes loadable module will NOT work and the driver needs to 
be built right inside the kernel. For example - some network cards do not
support loadable module feature - you MUST build the driver of the network 
card right into linux kernel. Hence, in 'make xconfig' you MUST not select
loadable module for this device."
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I even disabled "Loadable module support" (based on information above), but 
could not get any favorable results. HELP NEEDED VERY BADLY!!
Thank you
-Sumeet.

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