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 <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/3/2, Stephen Wilkinson <sw8511@gmail.com>:
> 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.
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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)