On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 12:52 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Hey guys, > > >> > > >> I just got an eVGA 680i motherboard last night and attempted to > > >> install Fedora FC6 on it using the network install option. The problem > > >> is that when it got to detecting my network card, it recognized that I > > >> got 2 network interfaces called MCP55 and when it tries to grab an IP > > >> address using DHCP, it just fails quitely. I tried both interfaces but > > >> to no avail. I can't seem to get FC6 to install on this new chipset. > > >> Now here is the quirky thing... On a long shot, I tried doing the same > > >> thing with FC5 and guess what... It recognized the network card! > > >> Sigh... anyone had any luck with installing FC6 on this board? Any > > >> work around ideas? > > > > > Can you clarify what you mean by "it fails quietly"? How is > the > > > failure evident? > > > > > > > > > Specifically, I will see the screen that let's me choose between DHCP, > > IPv4, and IPv6. I select all and hit the continue button. A gray box > > shows up indicating that it is trying to obtain an IP address.... it > > stalls for a few minutes and then it just takes me right back to the > > screen that lets me choose between the different options. No error > > message or anything. When I hit alt-arrow key to go to a different > > terminal window, I see that it is trying to use obtain an IP address > > and everything but it just gives up it seems. I'm not at home so I > > can't really say what the messages say exactly though. Any ideas why > > FC5 would work but not FC6? Thanks! > > That seems a bit strange. I've noticed that the time that it takes > the dhcp client in anaconda to get a lease in FC6 is significantly > longer than in FC5, but i've never run into problems getting the > lease. ---- it takes longer on FC-6 because FC-6 is trying to get ipv4 & ipv6 DHCP assignment and few people configure and none of the appliance devices that I am aware of provide ipv6 addresses via DHCP Craig
