Finally got 2.4.19 kernel to work correctly

[Thorin]

Woohoo! About 10 minutes ago, I finally managed to configure the 2.4.19 kernel correctly so that my cable connection would work! I had been trying to do this in Debian for about a month, and I finally did it!

The best part is how I did it! Today, I noticed an error message when I booted saying that I had to configure some kernel option to get eth0 working, but I couldn't read what it was. So I checked the kernel logs in /var/log... hmm, everything BUT that error message was there, try other logs, nope. Five minutes later, I got a little angry and decided to select EVERY networking option in the 2.4.19 config and guess what? It worked! I probably opened a few security holes here and there, but who cares? I've got 2.4.19 working perfectly!

This is the best thing I've done with Linux since I've installed Debian.

/runs off to install his NVIDIA drivers

[JP83]

Good for you! That can be very learning. How big is your kernel image size now? Now when it's working maybe you should try to make that image size litle smaler (around 550-850kb depending on your filesystem and hardware) and don't afraid of build things in modules (i use almost anything in modules like mouse,agpgart, ethernet card, usb...).

[Thorin]

It's around 800k now, I'm going to try to make it smaller and also get my USB optical mouse to work soon.

[bwkaz]

That error message you saw should be in the output of dmesg. ;)

[dubbac]

dmesg | grep eth0