>> modules in /lib/modules > Is this why I'm unable to even access network devices when I try > running a 2.4.26 kernel on Slackware 9.1? If you compile a 2.4.26 kernel, there will be /lib/modules/2.4.26 If you didn't compile it, then a binary/precompiled kernel would have to provide both the kernel image file and the associated modules in /lib/modules/2.4.26. If you have some time to muck around, try getting the 2.4.26 source from ftp.kernel.org and extract it in /usr/src make a new symbolic link for linux cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.26 linux Then configure the kernel cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make config OR make menuconfig Then compile the kernel make dep make bzImage Then compile and install the modules make modules modules_install That last command make modules_install puts the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.26 The compiled kernel will be in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage You need to copy that to /boot (usually renaming it vmlinuz-2.4.26) and then update the bootloader. Things are different with 2.6 kernels, I don't recommend using one yet unless you really need some feature or like to hack around. -- Doug
