On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:30 -0600, Russell Golden wrote: > I've been having a weird problem with my ethernet on Fedora 8... > Whenever I try to download updates, run the graphical package manager, > or do something that involves equivalent amounts of network activity, > something in Fedora (Don't know what, there's never any console message) > decides the network no longer exists and starts returning "Destination > Unreachable" for each packet. Disabling and re-enabling the Ethernet > card usually fixes this until a few seconds after I resume whatever > intensive activity I was doing. Sometimes however, that freezes the > network services, and all terminals (tty1-5 and console windows in X) > print what I assume is a backtrace. (If I can get that again, I'll send it.) > I have not had this problem on any previous versions of Fedora or Red > Hat Linux on this machine. > This is a laptop. The Ethernet card is a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 > Rhine II. > > Something else odd. On Fedora 7, on this same machine, Linux knew how to > activate my wireless card. Not just enable it from the network process, > but actually turn on the card and connect to something. In Fedora 8, it > can't activate the card anymore, and I need the wireless working for school. > The wireless card is RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI. (copied > from the network configuration panel) > > Has anyone else had these problems, and how do I fix them? > Sounds like a DNS problem on the f8 machine but that is strange since I assume they are using the same DNS server. -- ======================================================================= today, n.: A nice place to visit, but you can't stay here for long. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
