<div> oh yes, I wrote the stuff back to DVD and reimaged my machine, anyways i wanted to. I have liked using fedora but no-internet is stopping me from doing that. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wondering why I am not able to enable NIC to work on different flavor as well!! </div> <div> "rich3800@netzero.net" <rich3800@netzero.net> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Fedora, by nature, is more leading edge, less stable than the regular Red Hat stuff. We tend to forget that. Yes, I think updating or upgrading it can do that. Hope you backed up your stuff before. Maybe "un-yumming" can bring the functionality back? Rich On my dell inspiron 1505, NIC had worked fine, it stopped working all of a sudden, couldnt really predict any reason. What was I doing? --- Was trying for maximum plugins thru yum, guess yum"ing" did this, can this ? "rich3800@netzero.net" <RICH3800@NETZERO.NET>wrote: I thought it was a Fedora issue but I tried Opensuse 10.2 running Xen on the same machine and it had the same problem. Next to it, I had a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop running FC 6 with Xen, accessing the Internet just fine. On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 01:24 -0800, Vinay Bhardwaj wrote: > yeah I have had the same issue, tried with non - xen and infact ubuntu > as well, NIC has stopped working on Linux completely while works > absolutely fine on Windows. BTW I have a dual boot. Do you also have Dell Inspiron? Do I understand it correctly that the network didn't work for you even with non-xen kernels? Jindrich > Jindrich Novy wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:14 +0000, rich3800@netzero.net wrote: > > After installing Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 9100, I > lose > > Internet access, which was working during the install. What > could be > > wrong? The onboard nic is Broadcom 4400-based or similar. > > Have you tried to use non-xen kernel? The b44 module is known > not > functional with xen kernels (it won't work if you use > 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen and previous kernels) > > For reference please have a look at: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/208242 > > One user complains that the b44 module still doesn't work for > him with > Dell Inspiron 6000 with the new kernel containing the fix: > > http://people.redhat.com/sct/packages/kernel/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2857.4.2.fc6.0.2.sct/ > > even though it works almost for all other notebooks with > Broadcom (HP in > my case) so it seems like the whole Dell Inspiron series is > somehow > special.. > > Jindrich _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list </BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Best Regards, Vinay Bhardwaj </DIV> <hr size=1>Any questions? Get answers on any topic at <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx">Yahoo! Answers</a>. Try it now.