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

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

the following USB Controller modules are present on most system with 2.6 
kernels :

---
uhci-hcd
ohci-hcd
ehci-hcd
---

If you have a USB 2.0 chipset, the right module will be 'ehci-hcd' while 
USB 1.1 chipsets require either the 'ohci-hcd' or the 'uhci-hcd' modules.

Regards,


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


Jeramy Ashlock wrote:
> I actually make backups of my .config files from generic (kernel.org) 
> kernels and put them in /boot (just like the redhat kernels do),  and I 
> used my backup copy to recompile the kernel.  I didn't use make xconfig, 
> and I was prompted for the 8kstacks option when I ran make, to which I 
> answered "yes".
> 
> I'm finding out that my modules.conf got hosed, so that the only thing 
> left in it was the driverloader line, that's why dropping back to an old 
> kernel didn't even get my usb, ethernet or sound back.
> 
> I modprobe'd b44 and got my ethernet back.  I'm going to put some ALSA 
> junk in modules.conf for sound, but I'm not sure which usb modules to load.
> 
> 
> Gentoopower wrote:
> 
>> 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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