On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 01:56, Alberto M R Davila wrote: > I just installed FC2 in my toshiba satellite 4600 laptop (pentium 3) and > the ethernet card is not working even the "redhat-config-network" shows > eth0 is "Active"... I tried a new installation (formatting partitions) > but it does not work as well... curiously during boot the eth0 is loaded > "OK". I tried the "linux rescue" boot with the disk 1 of FC2 and > nothing... but when I try the "linux rescue" of FC1 the eth0 works... > "ping" from and to the laptop does not work. My "firewall" is enabled to > allow only SSH connections... btw, my sound card was not recognized after > installation as well, the test failed... any tips how I could conifgure > the eth0 manually ? Everything used to work fine when I was using FC1 in > the same laptop ;-) > > Thanks for any tips you may send. > > Cheers, Alberto Alberto, I had a problem when I first installed FC2 with ethernet cards being given a different device name from FC1. I have two network cards and eth0 became eth1 and vice versa. I realise that you may only have one card but it is worth checking that the device name has not changed somewhere. Check redhat->system tools-> network device control. -- John
