what GIVES???

[omicron]

after 5 days of non stop battling in trying to intall my NIC(DLink DFE530TX), i finally give up and decided that a new kernel 2.4.x from RH7.1 is needed. i was using RH7 before. so i downloaded the iso from linuxiso.org and md5sum checked both disc to make sure. i then install and reboot. when it starts, NOTHING works. i log in as root and lsmod gives me a empty list. furthermore, i tried the KDE control penal and see if that helps, half the icons there don't work. reporting that i need to install linuxconf, or netconf. what?? aren't these the defaults installed??? fine, i then tried the command prompt. first shot at modprobe and it says modules.dep file not find. i located the file, and it's there, the only prob is modprobe was trying to find it in a directory names 2.2.x while the all directory names in the system are 2.4.x. lastly, i realised that at login, the version of distro is 7.1(seawolf), but kernel remains 2.2.16-22. just what's going on??? any help would be MUCH appreciated to solve this mess :mad: :mad:

[sans-hubris]

Try recompiling your modules (make sure to do make modules and make modules_install.)

You do know how to recompile your kernel, right? If you don't do some searches around here, I know there are some topics on it.

This sounds like a kernel modules problem.

[pbharris]

hello,
it sounds like the install of redhat 7.1 wnet horribly wrong. At a minimum the new kernel should have installed. linuxconf does not get installed by default (at least the GUI one), it is there but as a console app.