How to activate proper NIC driver?

[Mark]

Thanks for the reply

> It appears you upgraded from an FC1 or earlier install and 
> did not do a clean install.
No, actually this is a simple and clean install off an FC1 CD. All the
things I wrote down I did at the first boot after taking out the install CD
and rebooting.

> 
> The modules for the 2.4 and earlier kernels used modules.conf but the
> 2.6 kernel uses modprobe.conf.
> 
> I don't really know why you would have needed to put that line in
> modules.conf since with FC2 it ignores that file and uses 
This is for FC1 - I never got to successfully install FC2 on any machine I
tried it on - but that's a different story. Or rather 1000 different stories
;)

> AFAIK only the
> modprobe.conf file.  Maybe you are booting to a 2.4 kernel which would
> explain the use of modules.conf.
> 
> What kernel are you actually running ( uname -r )? and what version of
> fedora?

The kernel is the original kernel from the FC1 CD (2.4.22-1???). Sorry, I
already have the server shut down and disconnected.