Ethernet card does not work with FC2

[Alberto M R Davila]

--- Dattatraya <dgokhale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT), Alberto M R Davila
> <amrdavila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:
> >  On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 04:10, John Morrison wrote:
> >  On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 01:56, Alberto M R Davila wrote:
> > I just installed FC2 in my toshiba satellite 4600 laptop (pentium 3)
> > and the ethernet card is not working even the "redhat-config-network"
> shows
>  > eth0 is "Active"...  I tried a new installation (formatting
> > > partitions)
> > > > > but it does not work as well... curiously during boot the eth0
> is
> > > loaded
> > > > > "OK". I tried the "linux rescue" boot with the disk 1 of FC2 and
> > > > > nothing... but when I try the "linux rescue" of FC1 the eth0
> > > works...
> > > > > "ping" from and to the laptop does not work. My "firewall" is
> > > enabled to
> > > > > allow only SSH connections... btw, my sound card was not
> recognized
> > > after
> > > > > installation as well, the test failed... any tips how I could
> > > conifgure
> > > > > the eth0 manually ? Everything used to work fine when I was
> using
> > > FC1 in
> > > > > the same laptop ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for any tips you may send.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers, Alberto
> > > > Alberto,
> 
> 
> Hi.. I'm no expert but I have a guess it might be because you have
> iptables running with somw wrong config... try stopping the iptables
> service completely and then try to ping.... It might just work...
> 
> Dattatraya

I stopped the iptables service and also disable my firewall, nothing
happened... I cannot connect to Internet.. will try the Scot suggestions.

Cheers, Alberto



		
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