On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 04:10, John Morrison wrote: > 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 Something simple. Does your netmask match the network netmask? -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
