[driverloader] No Ethernet, usb mouse, soundcard after using Linuxant's kernel patch

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

the patch will not change anything in your '/lib' directory. It seems 
that you applied the patch in the 'linux' directory which is often a 
symlink to the source tree of the kernel which was shipped your system.

If this is the case, then you have patched the wrong kernel tree, you 
must patch the generic Linux kernel that you can download at 
http://www.kernel.org and then compile and install this kernel.

It is also possible that you have not enabled these devices when you 
configured the kernel source tree.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Jeramy Ashlock wrote:
> I applied the patch using
> 
> [root at localhost linux]# patch -p1 <linux-2.6.9-16kstacks.patch
> patching file arch/i386/defconfig
> patching file arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
> patching file arch/i386/kernel/irq.c
> patching file include/asm-i386/irq.h
> patching file include/asm-i386/module.h
> patching file include/asm-i386/thread_info.h
> 
> and when I rebooted, the ethernet, usb mouse and soundcard are reported 
> as not found.
> 
> I completely removed the kernel directory, downloaded the kernel again 
> and rebuilt it, but these devices are still broken.
> 
> Does this patch alter anything in my /lib directory?
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