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March 07, 2004

Linux Kernel 2.6.3

So I decided to give the new Linux kernel another go today.

Believe it or not, I got most of it working... with the exception of one minor thing.

Internet connectivity.

It's actually quite weird. I initially tried using the RedHat kernel RPM, but ran into the problem of having network connectivity, but no Internet connectivity. So, I decided to take the config file from that kernel source, make it my own, and rebuild the kernel. I even went as far as to build the modules directly into the kernel itself. Still the same problem occurred.

Here's the gist of it:

- I can ping sites outside of my home network, like yahoo.com.
- I can do an nslookup of sites outside of my home network.
- I can't open a web browser and type in an address, either DNS or IP, and have the page load.
- I can't open a web site using an ftp client using either DNS or IP.
- I can ping and navigate inside of my home network using IP addresses.
- Using IP addresses, I can use programs like VNC to connect to other machines on my home network.
- I've manually edited all network config files, but nothing has helped.
- I've manually restarted the networking service, but that hasn't helped either.
- I've tried different network cards, based on the tulip module and other modules. No good.

This thing is acting like the 2.6.3 kernel doesn't like either the module, something is blocking DNS, or something has closed off all the ports in my PC. I've tested everything I know to test, but am still having the same problems.

What's really weird is if I go back into 2.4.x kernel, I have absolutely on problems at all. The same is also true for Windows.

I've gone over my kernel config file at least a dozen times trying to see if I missed anything, but at the moment everything seems to be set properly. I've posted my problem to a couple of different forums to see what kind of ideas that other people might have. I've found that usually if you give someone else a problem you've been busting your noggin on for a while, they can give you a fresh perspective that you haven't considered. Let's hope that this is the case with this particular issue.

On that note, I'm going to bed. I'm tired of messing around with this thing for today.

Oh... before I forget... I did get Alsa and USB working with no problems at all. I played some MP3's through ALSA, and man did it sound great. Can't wait to try some gaming with it.

Posted by ed at March 7, 2004 12:40 AM

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