At last, after an extenuating series of failures I've been able to compile a tailored 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop under debian potato, using many of the options I had been using when compiling the 2.2.19 one.
Now, it happens that while my 2.2.19 kernel at boot time recognizes the eth0 card (an eepro100, built as a module) and I can issue either ifconfig or ifup without problem, the new 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to recognize it (compiled as a module) giving the following well known error: potato#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 SIOCSIFADDR:no such device eth0:unknown interface:no such device If I issue 'modprobe eepro100' 'ifconfig' works properly but 'ifup eth0' goes on failing. Please help. Ciao Vittorio
