From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZhL9-0000ng-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:59:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38272E01DB; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA96E01DB for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so5695157qyk.10 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:59:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DtAwf/cVt7Q2Ftual0CyQUbseBXGzqkIUB8r8Y09pfQ=; b=qsLOxU+f8JN0IlgOuPpXnbs5Gqb+RJY//H+r2IIE4P4xHKqHopPDIjXWdzg3/9rFW9 c7xkrvNByIAVa39xB7v07qOqXF/ulvD8f2jDjd4z7AQhczMzmPKGQTCQnqHnSAHgMH6v goD9FB+UCdD/PS7302gRTAVwYzhza7mse4cx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x4NczydgUzDld1Cza6QW2vaN+5uqkU9TRoOxVxV2uAVanU6o20+2ImNO89bOrxuzLJ MoTh7bkS3dvEVrQGMGgi3uwy8Nt/ggZsxd5Cmr/Ij06ljHRh4yfvKn5dgGPdGPoaYw1B ioSw8kWGvaR9Rb/aSIljD4HuPP1wpgCokm/A8= Received: by 10.224.20.75 with SMTP id e11mr812245qab.45.1234943969824; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.105.225? (dialup-4.230.105.225.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm12289948yxk.32.2009.02.17.23.59.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:59:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499BBFDD.6020405@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:59:25 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade References: <865773ce0902151331y6c694eecm8625993dd9bd32a5@mail.gmail.com> <3ac129340902170337u215c0570n882217195623dfdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ac129340902170337u215c0570n882217195623dfdc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d0e47fdb-eefd-4efd-a064-406c1373db97 X-Archives-Hash: 89af9d2137e68b28877a44f612e45428 daid kahl wrote: > > > Also, you should avoid using oldconfig except for really minor kernel > upgrades. I know this is mentioned in documentation elsewhere, but > just a useful reminder. > > ~daid This has been discussed on this list before. Running make oldconfig works fine. I, and a lot of others, have said this many times. I configed one kernel about 5 years ago and have used oldconfig ever since. It is faster and less prone to problems than starting from scratch. If you are going from 2.4 to 2.6, then you should start fresh. I recently went from 2.6.23 to a 2.6.28 with no problem, other than trying to figure out that new group stuff. Dale :-) :-)