fedora core on emachines T2865

[Paul Pianta]

Joe Szilagyi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone install FC1 on this system? I'm all but ready to pull my 
> hair out since it absolutely will not find or acknowledge the generic 
> NIC card installed on it. Emachines' site is vague as to what's in 
> there, the card is basic, and nothing on FC seems to like it. I 
> searched the archives and Red Hat's HCL but found nothing...

you could try sticking a knoppix cd in and see if that has any luck 
detecting the nic - knoppix is legendary for its hardware detection. If 
knoppix can detect it - run an lsmod to see which module it is using and 
then try to get that module working under fedora later ...

hth

pantz

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