FC2 -DELL 8400 INTEGRATED ETHERNET GIGABIT PROBLEM

[Jan Morales]

Ahamarshan jn wrote:
> Hello,
>     I have a DELL-8400 Series PC with SATA drive and I dual booted it 
> with winxp-prof and FedoraCore2 , there was and still a problem with the 
> sata drive not getting recognised by FC2, i have overcome this by 
> changing the settings in bios (i need to do this everytime i boot!), 
> also while booting it says Unrecognised board/chipset, but the real 
> problem is that when i try to connect to the internet, i get an error 
> message that my device is not recognised. From the start-> 
> system-> Network connection, i selected the eth0 and the device type as 
> Intel Gigabit 1000.
> (Even after configuring the IP and settings)
> I also tried to build the kernel to 2.6.9.XX from 2.6.5 but all i got is 
> Kernel panic and FC2 fail to boot.
> Can anyone help me solve this problem.
> I am new to Fedora.
> My system details are
> DELL-8400
> INTEL-925X Express chipset with ICH6-R
> INTEGRATED RAID CONTROLLER WITH INTEL Matrix storage
> INTEGRATED GIGABIT NETWORK CONTROLLER
> INTEL PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR 550 WITH HT technology
> Serial ATA Hard drive with 8mb burst cache.
> 3GB DDR RAM.
>  
> Any help
> Thank you
> - ash
> 
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I have a month-old 8400, and the integrated gigabit NIC is detected as a 
  Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme (Trigon3).

Jan