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 <jnovy@redhat.com> 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