<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:03 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 06:59:53 pm Donald Reader wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:12 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > > > Motherboard: P5GC-MX/1333, onboard Attansic L2 NIC chip [snip!] > > I have a friend who just installed F8 on his HP Pavillion a1220n which > has a realtech onboard nic that is having the same issue about WinXP > turning the nic off and when booting back into f8 not getting switched > on. From the sounds of it the drivers are at fault so any help in > finding the proper driver or resolving of the issue would be greatly > appreciated > Donald Reader As you can see in my specific case, it seemed that the issue I had was an old driver from a company bought out but another company who provided improved code for this NIC chipset for Linux which resulted in old and new drivers spread across multiple OSes. I was lucky that Chris Shook came to my rescue, otherwise I'd be deeply frustrated. It seems to me, that you may need to post your friend's issue in a separate thread, with the proper subject line and detail the issue and supply the Linux 'modinfo <driver>' and the 'lsmod | grep <driver>' as well as the drivers used in XP (and any other Multiboot OSes drivers) in the email message body and also posit that you believe it is a driver conflict problem OR use Fedora's bugzilla and pray that someone who is working on that specific driver sees your post and will respond. Dan </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Thank you for your response Dan and will do what I can then Donald Reader </BODY> </HTML>