Phil Thomson wrote:After no less than three attempts, I finally got Fedora Core 2 installed and booting on an old 233 with 64 MB of RAM that I found in the garbage (!). But now, upon boot, Fedora tries to "bring up" eth0 for a long time before saying it "FAILED". Does this simply mean the ethernet adapter is broken (given that I found this box in the trash, that may well be, though it seems perfectly functional in all other ways)? Or is there a .conf file or something I need to tweak somewhere?
Could you run /sbin/lspci -v and send us any stanzas mentioning Ethernet, and the output of running /sbin/ifup eth0 as root?
lspci gives:
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3com Corporation 3c905 100 Base TX [Boomerang]
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0076
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec80 [size=fc000000]
Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled]
ifup gives:
Determining IP information for eth0... failed (the "failed" comes after a very long pause)
