network cark problem under 2.6.3
Hi Everybody! Im new to LQ and I think the site is great so far. Anyway, I hope someone here can help me.
I'm running slack 9.1 on an old pentium 166, with 2 realtek 8139c ethernet cards (It's eventually going to be my router/firewall). Right now I have it plugged into a hub with my dsl router and some other machines.
Now here's my problem: I just upgraded the kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.3 and now my ethernet card can't contact the dhcp server. I made sure the eth card settings were the same in the new .config file. lspci shows the cards are being detected but at boot it says eth0: link down.
I know this is not the case because when i boot into my old kernel the problem is gone.
I can't ping anything besides 127.0.0.1. ifconfig only brings up the lo interface.
Anybody got ideas?
Thanx in advance
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