Lost my network

[aNoob]

Hi there,searched the site but nothing answer tmy question,here it is:
Since I had no sound with the default kernel in Slack 10.1 I decided to recompile the newest kernel I found, 2.6.10 that is. I think I included most of the features directly in the kernel just to be sure I won't miss a thing. Recompile went like a breeze, everything worked, sound as well this time , except that there's no network. ifconfig gives me only the loopback and ifconfig -a gives me dummy0 ,irlan0 and lo. Now, I did a lsmod which resulted in an empty list, went and change resolf.conf to have my router address there. Quite out of options here.Of course, I kept the old kernel and I can boot anytime I want to have the network back, but maybe someone knows what I did wrong.
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[plainzwalker]

Are you sure you included the settings for your network card? You should probably post the network section for your .config so we can get an idea of what might be missing.

[Daedrus]

Also might help if you post you network (and sound since you had a problem with that) hardware info so we might be able to point you in the right direction as to what to compile into your kernel. I usually put network and sound as modules instead of compiling them into the kernel. It is easier for me to make sure that they are loading properly that way.

[JamminJoeyB]

From your post it sounds like you compiled your network driver directly into your kernel. I just hope you didn't compile all the network drivers into the kernel and only the one for your network card. That would be one giant kenel if you did. While this isn't a bad thing, you will need to recompile of you ever have your nic go bad and use a different nic card in your system.

Based on the fact you say that lsmod is empty, if you compiled the nic driver as a module it was not loaded at boot time. Not a big problem as threads on here can show you how to load modules at boot time. To save some time load it manually for now.

Try getting a ip addy using dhcp. Ocassionally My nic card will not initialize properly. Not a big deal as running the command 'dhcpcd' as root fixes this and I am off and running again. Try that and then check ifconfig to see if you get a proper ip addy.

[aNoob]

I followed the advice to install the hardware as modules and ... BINGO! I have sound & network!
One thing bothers me, Slack never had problems with my Dell regarding the soundcard , why it doesn't work by default with 10.1? Pretty weird , anyway, was a long time I didn't recompile a kernel, was a good exercise. And yes, thank you for the support guys.Man, I love this place!