I just built 2.4.18 on a HP Omnibook XE2 laptop running Redhat-7.2. Everything is working perfectly using the Redhat supplied kernel.
Networking is severely horked using the 2.4.18 kernel that i built (this is the first kernel that i've built on this laptop, so i'm not ruling out the possibility of my unfamiliarity with the hardware). Here's an assortment of errors that i'm seeing at bootup: ifup: arping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol ifup: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1 network: bringing up interface lo: failed RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address What is even more strange is that the loopback comes up anyway (it appears in the output from ifconfig). I'll also note that support for the PCMCIA Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100+ Modem 56 card no longer seems to exist, as pcmcia-cs fails to recognize it, even when i manually load the module that supports it. After trolling through messages a bit, I see some references to a failure to locate module net-pf-17 when cardmgr tries to support the card. What I don't understand is why its looking for the packet socket module, when i have no call for it in modules.conf. Any & all input on this weirdness is appreciated. Thanks! ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
