On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Tony Dietrich wrote: > I have recently moved to FC2 from RH9. > The system is dual-boot with WinXP, and had data on the home partition I > didn't want to lose, so I downloaded the isos to the home partition and tried > installing from the HD. This install failed. > > I backed up, removed FC2, installed a plain RH9 system, then upgraded that > system from the HD FC2 isos. > > Installation went perfectly, except....... the netcard on the system will not > activate. > > Symptoms: > > The system detects the DEC21040 card perfectly. > lspci -v reports the card correctly, installed on IRQ11 with no conflicts. > however, modprobe fails :-( > dmesg reports that modprobe fails becasue either there is a problem with the > compilation of the tulip drivers, or there are incorrect parameters being used > somewhere. > The reported path to the driver is correct. To the best of my knowlegde all > the required driver files are present. > > Anyone have any ideas please? > > I'm new to working with hardware drivers, so be gentle with me please <g> a quick search in bugzilla gives: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125475 Satish
