No Ethernet on YDL 4.0

[Lewis Coleman]

That is the way I normally boot up.  When I do something weird, I 
usually can figure out what I have done, but not this time.
Also, what is the matter with my ethernet?

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 12:43  PM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> The 3.0 kernel is incompatible with 4.0, so don't use them together. 
> Use
> the kernel and initrd (ram disk) that yum update installs into /boot.
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:54:43 -0800, Lewis Coleman wrote:
>
>> Part 1.
>> My wireless card (orinoco_cs hermes) doesn't work!  (also my tulip
>> ethernet).  It used to.  Maybe what I did in Part 2 was the problem?
>> The computer says "No eth1"  or something like that.  (Also "no eth0")
>> Let me explain how I work--sort of like the monkeys that wrote
>> Shakespeare:  Even though I don't know what I am doing, I try
>> EVERYTHING!  (it works usually!) So I tried depmod, modprobe, 
>> ifconfig,
>> iwconfig, netstat (I don't know what good that did!) and more.
>> Also when I run system-config-network and save the results--the next
>> time I run it, it has changed!  (Some other system-config programs
>> might not work correctly, either.)
>>
>> Part 2.  (May not be related to Part 1)
>> Just for fun--what have I done:
>> I have an Old World Mac (Powerbook 3400) running YDL 4.0.  I use 
>> BootX,
>> of course.  OK.  So I put in the YDL 4.0 Install #1 disk and run BootX
>> from OS 9.1.  I use the YDL 3.0 boot up kernel and ram disk, but I put
>> init=5 (or 3 or S) in the additional kernel parameters.  The CD Drive
>> makes noises like it is booting up.  Then I do the Control-Option 2
>> thing and get a command line prompt!  I can see the cdrom and ??.  I
>> type /sbin/continue.  I "Control-Option 7" back and get what looks 
>> like
>> the system-config-network-tui program! (Not that is does anything!! ) 
>> I
>> believe the Control-Option 1 window displays something also.  I throw
>> my laptop violently to the ground to turn it off (Not really, but you
>> get the picture!)
>>
>> Now don't spoil my fun by asking "Why?!!"  Just tell me what was
>> happening!  (And "don't try this at home!")
>>
>> And where can I find a list of the "additional kernel parameters"
>> parameters?
>>
>>              Lewis S Coleman
>>
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