On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:39, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've installed FC6t1 on an old laptop that uses a Netgear FA411 PCMCIA > ethernet card. After the install I could not get the network up at all. > The network configuration gui showed the hardware as pcnet_cs. Eventually > I gave up and rebooted. After that I found that the configuration gui > correctly described it as a Netgear card, and the LAN was working. > > This morning I can't get it working again. system-config-network is > correctly showing the Netgear setting, but lsmod shows pcnet_cs, so I > presume the wrong driver is being loaded at bootup. How can I tackle this? > Quoting another thread - If you ask a question and don't get an answer, then it's likely you're not doing it right. OK - maybe I asked the wrong question. http://www.fdlinux.com/networkcompat.html#Version3 tells me that the NetGear FA411 Fast Ethernet card is supported by pcnet_cs.o, as is NE2000 Compatible Fast Ethernet which is what I can see in syslog. modprobe pcnet_cs gives FATAL: error inserting pcnet_cs (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2289_FC6/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg complains that the unknown parameter is irq. I removed the irq and resource settings from system-config-network. Still only lo. Now, however, ifconfig -a shows entries for eth0 (complete with irq 3 and base address 0x3000, lo and sit0. Still, calling 'ifup eth0' tells me that '/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 not found'. I repeat that last night I did manage to contact the LAN briefly, just before switching off for the night. What else can I try? Anne
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