On 4/30/05, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All > > Installed my first Fedora machine on old PIII-550MHz system. Had > migrated to Whitebox Linux for Production machines but could not > resist going back to Fedora for my personal machine. > > I am facing a peculiar problem...maybe I am missing the simplest thing > but here it is...I has a Realtek 8029AS Card...Did a FC3 ISO > install...Every time I switched the machine On, I had to activate > eth0...as it would automatically deactivate itself. > > Then I changed to another Realtek 8032 or something similar card > (sorry am writing this from office so don't remember exact number). I > also updated the machine using yum yesterday (Everthing Install > option). > > Now I have a different problem...my eth0 is active and the problem > does not remain, but I do not get DNS Resolution. DNS Server entries > are there in the Network Config GUI. Restarted the network service > after rewriting the DNS values in GUI and saving them again. But no > go. > > One curious fact...my resolv.conf is empty...is this a change in > Fediora? I put my DNS Servers in Resolv.conf manually and again > restarted the network service but same results. > > Where's the culprit....I have a vague feeling its me ;-)...I'm missing > something very small and obvious. > > Please help. > Sanjay. > hey, did you check the logs .Check the logs there must be some entries for ethernet.Post those messages here. tail -f /var/log/messages through the network gui tool checkmark "to activate the ethernet card at boot up". Regards Ankush
