Ethernet card does not work with FC2

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 04:10, John Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 01:56, Alberto M R Davila wrote:
> > I just installed FC2 in my toshiba satellite 4600 laptop (pentium 3) and
> > the ethernet card is not working even the "redhat-config-network" shows
> > eth0 is "Active"...  I tried a new installation (formatting partitions)
> > but it does not work as well... curiously during boot the eth0 is loaded
> > "OK". I tried the "linux rescue" boot with the disk 1 of FC2 and
> > nothing... but when I try the "linux rescue" of FC1 the eth0 works...
> > "ping" from and to the laptop does not work. My "firewall" is enabled to
> > allow only SSH connections... btw, my sound card was not recognized after
> > installation as well, the test failed... any tips how I could conifgure
> > the eth0 manually ? Everything used to work fine when I was using FC1 in
> > the same laptop ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks for any tips you may send.
> > 
> > Cheers, Alberto
> Alberto,
> 
> I had a problem when I first installed FC2 with ethernet cards being
> given a different device name from FC1. I have two network cards and
> eth0 became eth1 and vice versa. I realise that you may only have one
> card but it is worth checking that the device name has not changed
> somewhere. Check redhat->system tools-> network device control.
> 
> --
> John
Something simple. Does your netmask match the network netmask?
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>