2009/1/20 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > You may want to use ethtool to check the status of the NIC. It > sounds like the link detect is not working. I can not remember off > hand how to disable link-detect, but I know there used to be a way > to turn it off. (The system will not longer try to detect if the NIC > is connected...) > > It is possible that the USB problem sent a spike to other parts of > the motherboard when you shorted it out. Thanks. I'll give that a go. I've tried quite a few other things since my last email. The module is loading (uli526x) although the in-use column says zero. messages doesn't contain anything particularly interesting except for a message saying "eth0: link not ready". I've tried configuring it with NetworkManager and the normal network service, both with the same results. I've even re-installed F10 which didn't work, then tried F9 and still no luck. The reason I tried both is that back in the days of Fedora 8, I had this same problem and never got it working, then when F9 came along, it started working. I then upgraded to F10. I thought installing F9 might kick it back into life but sadly not. Strange that it works fine in Windows though. That link-detect setting sounds like a useful lead. I'll try it tonight after work. Chris. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines