Thank you all for your replies. I may have found the problem, although I'm not sure because I ended up re-installing: tired of using live CDs and rebooting to see if my changes had any effect on the problem, I decided to do an ftp re-installation... but when I created my network connection, I kept getting transmission errors (code 0x90 reported in one of the virtual consoles, lots of TX overruns reported by ifconfig and in /proc/net/dev). That seemed odd as the hardware was working perfectly during the last upgrade... in the end I had to switch off my router and computer for those errors to disappear and to get a connection working. So I wonder if after the modules loaded, the network connection could not be brought up and caused everything else to fail. I'll never know as I wasn't able to test it...
Thanks again for your helpful suggestions. Steve On 02/03/2008, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/3/2, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello All, > > > > Thank you for your replies. > > > > To answer a few questions: > > > > * versions before and after ugrade (I'm can see I've probably > > attempted a combination which won't work...) > > - kernel: 2.6.15-2 ---> 2.6.22 > > - udev: 079-1 > > - initscripts: 0.7.1-17 > > - mkinitrd 1.01-25 -> mkinitcpio 0.5.15-2 > > > > When I upgraded the kernel it only asked to upgrade mkinitrd to > > mkinitcpio... so the other two didn't change. > > > I highly recommend you to upgrade *at least* initscripts and udev. > > > -- > Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) >
