Fedora FC6 network install problems with eVGA nForce 680i motherboard

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I just got an eVGA 680i motherboard last night and attempted to
> install Fedora FC6 on it using the network install option. The problem
> is that when it got to detecting my network card, it recognized that I
> got 2 network interfaces called MCP55 and when it tries to grab an IP
> address using DHCP, it just fails quitely. I tried both interfaces but
> to no avail. I can't seem to get FC6 to install on this new chipset.
> Now here is the quirky thing... On a long shot, I tried doing the same
> thing with FC5 and guess what... It recognized the network card!
> Sigh... anyone had any luck with installing FC6 on this board? Any
> work around ideas?

Can you clarify what you mean by "it fails quietly"?  How is the
failure evident?


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