Newbie Alert :) Network Problems

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:08:24 -0800, davide Richmond <rdavide69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya all,
> 
> I'm burnt on certifying on WinDoze...so figure it's time to dabble in Linux.
> 
> So I've installed Fedora 3 on a Thinkpad A21M.  It looks like everything
> worked fine...so I just plugged in my LAN line and went..hmm...no access
> when I launch Firefox. So, I went into Network Configuration and created a
> new device using the eth0 that was listed under Hardware (3Com Corp 3c556B
> CardBus [Tornada]).  Unfortunately, when I hit Activate I get the error
> Cannot activate network device eth0! (3c59x device eth0 does not seem to be
> present, delaying initialization.)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated :)

You may need to try to run the /sbin/lspci if u are using the normal
user or just run lspci in root account and would show it is defected
by system or not.

Ringo