Re: Debian put into a broken state

From: Alan Chandler (alan_at_chandlerfamily.org.uk)
Date: 04/02/04

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:08:39 +0100

    On Thursday 01 April 2004 23:34, Sean O'Dell wrote:
    > Solved this, pretty much. Basically, when I upgraded, two things happened
    > that I didn't know about. One, the kernel driver for my network card
    > stopped getting loaded; something happened during dist-upgrade or upgrade
    > that caused it to be removed from the list of modules to load. I compiled
    > the driver static in the kernel and the network was able to load after
    > that. Also, kdm apparently was un-installed by something during
    > dist-upgrade or upgrade. So, once I got the network back up, removing and
    > re-installing various things got me back in working order.

    It would probably be better for you to use a standard debian kernel and add
    the name of the ethernet driver into /etc/modules 

    -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
 then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi
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