On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:59:47 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
So I took out the CD and tried again. It still kept telling me device eth0 "seems not to be present." I configured an eth1; trying to activate that got the same result.
Does the install actually see the physical nic? Could it possiblybe loading the wrong driver for it? Before you go into software hunting mode, I always check hardware drivers first, make sure they're there and are correct. I'd check /var/log/dmesg see what it says regarding the card.
Dunno how to tell most of that. I did "cat /var/log/dmesg | more" and looked through it, but 99 44/100% is over my head. I also tried "cat /var/log/dmesg|grep eth0" and got nothing.
What should I be looking for in that log??
And not to burst your bubble, but I just installed FC6 on arelatively old machine that has 3 Intel nics in it (one dual and one single.) Just a breeze...configured all three, rebooted and there they were. I'm running updates right now. By golly, I'll be going home early today.
I'm not even sure what a nic is; but I've owned this machine since it came out the door of the retailer (in 11/98), and nothing has been done about any ethernet card(s) in years. It has the same old 10/100 it's had since who goosed the moose, and nothing at all has been done to any of its hardware in many moons. I know it should work, and did work -- and has always figured itself out on boot.