On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 21:03, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > >I am having problems with networking on my laptop. > > > >FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 5000 with PC card ethernet. > >I have 2 different ethernet cards and the symptoms are the same with > >both. > >3C562B/3C563B dual network/modem card > >3C589D 10base2/10baseT card. <snip> > >TIA > >Jeff > > > > > > > The first thing I would try (because it is known to work for certain > 3com cards using the 3c5x9 module and might be the same issue) is to > turn off kudzu running at boot, then reboot the system. > > chkconfig kudzu off > reboot > > It seems that FC's version of kudzu hoses certain 3com cards with the > probing it does. > > Chris > That made no difference. After worrying with this for a while I realized that I only had one dongle, and that I have been using it with the ethernet card on various laptops for several years. It has only recently begun giving me this problem so I began to suspect it may have gotten damaged (especially since I let a friend use the ethernet card for his laptop some time ago) I got a new (and of course better) pc card and that one works flawlessly. A linksys PCM200 and when I plugged it in the machine loaded the tulip driver and it just works. No dongles on this one to get damaged. :-)
