Fedora FC6 network install problems with eVGA nForce 680i motherboard

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 12:52 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Specifically, I will see the screen that let's me choose between DHCP,
> > IPv4, and IPv6. I select all and hit the continue button. A gray box
> > shows up indicating that it is trying to obtain an IP address.... it
> > stalls for a few minutes and then it just takes me right back to the
> > screen that lets me choose between the different options. No error
> > message or anything. When I hit alt-arrow key to go to a different
> > terminal  window, I see that it is trying to use obtain an IP address
> > and everything but it just gives up it seems. I'm not at home so I
> > can't really say what the messages say exactly though. Any ideas why
> > FC5 would work but not FC6? Thanks!
> 
> That seems a bit strange.  I've noticed that the time that it takes
> the dhcp client in anaconda to get a lease in FC6 is significantly
> longer than in FC5, but i've never run into problems getting the
> lease.
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it takes longer on FC-6 because FC-6 is trying to get ipv4 & ipv6 DHCP
assignment and few people configure and none of the appliance devices
that I am aware of provide ipv6 addresses via DHCP

Craig