Problem setting up wired networking

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 13 November 2008 12:09:24 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 12:29 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:48:25PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > ifcfg-eth0
> > >
> > > #Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet
> > > Controller DEVICE=eth0
> > > BOOTPROTO=static
> > > DNS1=212.23.3.100	GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> > > HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
> >
> >        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >    Why that?  Surely not right unless your hardware is broken.
> >
> > You will likely fare better with HWADDR line removed.
>
> I would guess on a side-effect of
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468360
> or
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460747
>
Or both.  Both seem relevant to me.  I have three kernels installed, so I 
tried each, with the following results:

2.6.27.3-34	no wired or wireless connection
2.6.27.4-79	Wired connection ok, but WPA connection asks for WEP key
2.6.27.5-94	ditto

I guess that explains why my wired connection suddenly started working, but it 
gets me no nearer with wireless, and a netbook loses its point without 
wireless.

I know that the netbook uses a realtek wireless, but I can't remember where I 
found the model.  I did write everything down before wiping Linpus, but I'm 
afraid I put it into the proverbial "safe place".  I need to find that info 
before I can add to the bug report.

Anne
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