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
2008/3/2, Stephen Wilkinson
: 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)