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

[Gentoopower]

Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:

> 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.
>
Yeah I was just thinking the same thing, Jeramy did you run a make 
xconfig or so and configure the kernel options, I think RedHat  keeps a 
kernel.config of their installed kernel in /boot which you can use to 
compile the redhat kernel, if you didn't do anything like that then you 
compiled a kernel with basic config options :-)

> 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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