Ethernet card does not work with FC2

[Dattatraya]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT), Alberto M R Davila
<amrdavila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:
>  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,


Hi.. I'm no expert but I have a guess it might be because you have
iptables running with somw wrong config... try stopping the iptables
service completely and then try to ping.... It might just work...

Dattatraya
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