No networking with Fedora Core 7

[john]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:47 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2007 09:21:40 john wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 08:54 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote:
> ...
> > > > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> ...
> > > The failure is happening in DHCP.  The DHCP server (cable modem?) is
> > The ethernet cable is attached to a Netgear Router/Gateway which
> > attaches to a Cable Modem. The setup works find when using the install
> > kernel 2.6.21-1.394.fc7
> 
> Maybe the Linux firewall is not allowing broadcasts?
> 
> I would try disabling the firewall and, if that didn't do it,
> configuring a static IP address just to see if networking can be
> brought up.
>> Disabled it and it still does not work
> 
> By the way, I also use a Netgear firewall-router (FR114P in front of
> DSL) and its DHCP service works fine on my machine with
> 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 kernel.  I never enabled the Linux firewall on this
> machine.
>> I have the Netgear 4-port 10/100 Mbps switch rp614
> 
> Is there some reason you took this discussion off the list?
>> Not intentionally. I put it back on the list
>