onboard NIC: Attansic L2 [SOLVED]

[Donald Reader]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:03 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 06:59:53 pm Donald Reader wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:12 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > > > > > Motherboard: P5GC-MX/1333,  onboard Attansic L2 NIC chip
>    [snip!]
> >
> > I have a friend who just installed F8 on his HP Pavillion a1220n which
> > has a realtech onboard nic that is having the same issue about WinXP
> > turning the nic off and when booting back into f8 not getting switched
> > on. From the sounds of it the drivers are at fault so any help in
> > finding the proper driver or resolving of the issue would be greatly
> > appreciated
> > Donald Reader
> 
> As you can see in my specific case, it seemed that the issue I had was an old 
> driver from a company bought out but another company who provided improved 
> code for this NIC chipset for Linux which resulted in old and new drivers 
> spread across multiple OSes.
> 
> I was lucky that Chris Shook came to my rescue, otherwise I'd be deeply 
> frustrated.  It seems to me, that you may need to post your friend's issue in 
> a separate thread, with the proper subject line and detail the issue and 
> supply the Linux 'modinfo <driver>' and the 'lsmod | grep <driver>' as well 
> as the drivers used in XP (and any other Multiboot OSes drivers) in the email 
> message body and also posit that you believe it is a driver conflict problem 
> OR use Fedora's bugzilla and pray that someone who is working on that 
> specific driver sees your post and will respond.
> 
> Dan


Thank you for your response Dan and will do what I can then

Donald Reader
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