Hi, I have installed slackware 12.1 on vmware server 1.0.1 with win xp. After that i did new kernel 2.6.24.5 compiling for vmware device drivers. Here is my configs, make mrproper make menuconfig make -j3 bzImage make -j3 modules make modules_install cp System.map /boot/System.mapnew cp .config /boot/confignew cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuznew mv /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-old /etc/lilo.conf vga=normal lba32 compact image = /boot/vmlinuznew root = /dev/sda2 label = linux_2618 read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz-old root = /dev/sda2 label = linux_2433 read-only /sbin/lilo -v cd /boot rm System.map rm config rm vmlinuz Here is the list of lspci command: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 0 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc Abstract SVGA II Adapter 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: BusLogic BT-946C (BA80C30) [MultiMaster 10] (rev 01) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) I have enabled Device Drivers -> Network Device Support -> Ethernet (10 or 100 ) -> AMD (PCnet32 lance) But problem is there is no modules lists on lsmod command Please help me regards geeta
Thanks for your response. I have compiled the same kernel. I didnt get you "compiled the kernel statically"? Regards geetha
Here is my kernel recompiling steps, I have installed below kernel packages with slackware 12.1 kernel-headers-2.6.24.5-x86-2 kernel-huge-2.6.24.5-i486-2 kernel-huge-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2 kernel-modules-2.6.24.5-i486-2 kernel-source-2.6.24.5_smp-noarch-2 make mrproper make menuconfig make -j3 bzImage make -j3 modules make modules_install cp System.map /boot/System.mapnew cp .config /boot/confignew cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuznew mv /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-old /etc/lilo.conf vga=normal lba32 compact image = /boot/vmlinuznew root = /dev/sda2 label = linux_new read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz-old root = /dev/sda2 label = linux_old read-only /sbin/lilo -v cd /boot rm System.map rm config rm vmlinuz