No network after yum kernel upgrade

[Jon D. Slater]

Jon D. Slater wrote:

> Jdek wrote:
>
>>Le vendredi 11 novembre 2005 à 10:25 -0700, Jon D. Slater a écrit :
>>  
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I've been away from this list for a while, and I've asked the question 
>>>before.  (So, it may have been answered.)
>>>
>>>Today I did a "yum update" and got kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 (updated 
>>>from  kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4).
>>>
>>>Rebooted, and I lost my network connection.
>>>
>>>During the boot to '1637' and from the network admin screen, it claims 
>>>to not be able to find my eth0 device (3Com 3c905).
>>>
>>>But when I boot using '1456', it finds eth0 just fine.
>>>
>>>I'm running on an HP Pavilion 8150.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Jon
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I've got the same problem, with a message saying that the setup of eth0 is delayed because of a lack of a module (?)
>>forcedeth that should work with NVidia chipsets.
>>But I can't understand the steps to include this module I've found here
>>and there.
>>
> I just checked my message file (to see if I missed something) and found:
> modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Unknown 
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
> What the heck does that mean?


Here's a bit more information from the 'messages' file:

> Nov 11 09:29:59 lambdacenter ntpd[1794]: sendto(66.187.233.4): Network 
> is unreachable
> Nov 11 09:30:25 lambdacenter kernel: 3c59x: Unknown parameter `irq'
> Nov 11 09:30:25 lambdacenter modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Unknown 
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
> < removed a bunch of repeated messages here >
>
> Nov 11 09:30:25 lambdacenter kernel: 3c59x: Unknown parameter `irq'
> Nov 11 09:30:25 lambdacenter modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Unknown 
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Nov 11 09:30:25 lambdacenter modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Unknown 
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)


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