-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dave Harman wrote: | | | I installed FC4 on a Dell Dimension 2400 | | This machine has 2 NIC cards – one for local network and | | one for Internet | | For some reason, FC cannot see the NIC cards. | | When I examine DMESG, FC4 seems to find each card, identify the | | driver, the MAC address of each card, and the IRQ to be used | | | Also the startup screen shows eth0 and eth1 starting with the green | “OK” | | But the route commands attempting to use dev eth0 or dev eth1 | | return “no such device” as an error message and when I try to | | ping localhost or a static IP I get the message “network is | unreachable” | | The cables are plugged into the same hubs that other servers | successfully | | use. | | | Does anyone have an idea where I can look for solution? | | And if I may be permitted a small rant, I think FC in general is a | poor, | | poor second to the regular releases we used to get from Red Hat. | This is the | | second time I’ve installed FC4 on this machine. The first time, the | screen | | would blink off for no reason, and BIND wouldn’t see the local | network. | | Now, after the 2^nd installation, the screen behaves itself, but I | have problems with | | the network cards. | | This stuff is supposed to run – like do useful things? – not be a | project which goes | | on and on trying to get it to work. For me, the Fedora Project has | "we don't care" written | | all over it. | | | End of Rant. | | Thanks | | Dave Harman | | have you checked, if you have a firewall up and running, and its rules? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDCdwgxHPquN24yVsRA5MzAJ9G5sWlkDPiTK/3i9bD3eX61QOYeQCgsdA6 up4EQ68WCrM+rTwdrYKb7rE= =kX/K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
