Various recent threads about networking issues

[Matthew Saltzman]

I've seen a number of threads in the last couple of days about networking 
problems after installing kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.  If you are having 
problems and you have more than one NIC, please try the following and 
report back whether it works:

(1) Install initscripts-8.31.2-1 from updates-testing.
(2) If you have an ipw2100 or ipw2200, install the latest appropriate 
firmware RPM from livna.
(3) Open system-config-network and delete all interfaces from the 
interfaces tab and all devices from the hardware tab.
(4) Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and remove aliases for network devices.
(5) Reboot.
(6) Open system-config-network and verify that your devices are correctly 
configured.  (Note that the device order may have changed.  After this, it 
will not change again.)
(7) Check /etc/modprobe.conf.  If you use an ipw2200, the following 
options are recommended:

 	options ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 associate=0

(7) Test your interfaces.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs