Re: Problem with fresh update of RH9-> FC2 ... net card driver fails

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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


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