[wellylug] Re: network card disappears after kernel update

[Bill Christiansen]

Problem solved, it was the pcmcia_core module not being loaded due to
an unrecognised option in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia so once I got rid of
that it's fine.

On 5/29/05, Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently running PCLinuxOs on my laptop and alls running fine
> using a 2.6.10 kernel but I noticed they had a 2.6.11 kernel in their
> repository so I thought I'd give it a try. When I boot the 2.6.11
> kernel it can no longer see my network card. The last line of an lspci
> on the 2.6.10 kernel is: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek
> Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> but this line is missing when I do an lspci on the 2.6.11 kernel. The
> 8139too module is getting loaded at boot time. As an experiment I
> installed PCLinuxOs on another PC that uses the same driver for it's
> network card and installed the new kernel and then created a livecd
> using the 2.6.11 kernel. The funny thing is I can then run the livecd
> on my laptop and the network card works - ahha, I thought, so I
> installed from the new livecd to my laptops hard drive only to find
> when I rebooted my nic had gone AWL again. Any ideas on things to
> check?
>