Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

Brian John brianjohn at fusemail.com
Sat Mar 5 08:10:33 PST 2005


Kent Stewart wrote:

>On Saturday 05 March 2005 12:40 am, Brian John wrote:
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>>Hello.
>>I just added a couple of config attributes to my make.conf, namely
>>this (I think this is close):
>>CPU-TYPE = athlon-xp
>>CFLAGS = -0 -pipe
>>COPTFLAGS = -0 -pipe
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>>Then I did a "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel".  I then
>>rebooted into single user mode and did a "make buildworld".  Then I
>>restarted and now I have no internet.  I can't get any pages to come
>>up in firefox or dillo.  I tried pinging www.yahoo.com and I got 69%
>>packet loss.  Also, when I try to do "portupgrade -ap" to reinstall
>>all of my ports, it can't connect to download the distfiles.  What
>>can I do to fix this?
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>Do it in the right order. You want a new kernel build to use the code 
>produced by the buildworld. Now, you have a user land from one 
>buildworld and a kernel from the previous one. Processes such a top may 
>not even work in your environment.
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Yeah, I went back and did it exactly as it said in the handbook, now I 
have 100% packet loss.  Any clue what would cause this?

Thanks for the help

/Brian

>You boot to single user mode to test the new kernel and stop all of the 
>competing processes. Then, you do the installworld and run mergemaster 
>to update the configuration files.
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>Kent
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>>Thanks
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>>/Brian
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