Kernel Differences Woes

[Kam Leo]

On 6/4/06, Rod Haper <rhaper at houston.rr.com> wrote:
> Okay, let me try this again by restating my problem in a little
> different way.
>
> I have a generic AMD Athlon XP, VIA chipset mainboard based system that
> will boot FC4 and run just fine with the FC4 baseline 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> stock kernel but when I boot the updated 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 stock kernel
> it fails to include some of the hardware devices like the ethernet
> interface, USB mouse, etc.  The same problem occurs with the FC5
> baseline stock kernel.  What is different in the two stock kernels that
> could be causing this problem and, more importantly, what can I do to
> fix the problem?
>
> I also have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop that has similar problems.  It
> will boot and run the FC4 baseline 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 stock kernel and
> kernels through the early 1400 builds but for all following stock kernel
> updates the PCMCIA ethernet device is not included.
>
> --
> Rod
>

Build/compile your own kernel. It's not that hard to do. You can
either use the fedora core .src.rpm or get the latest source straight
from http://www.kernel.org.