I upgraded the HDD in my laptop from a 20GB to a 100GB drive. This means a new OS install on the new drive. The system is dual boot W2K and FC3. W2K (after hours of installing drivers and anti-spyware, etc.) works fine, including full network and Internet connectivity.
FC3 worked fine at first - full network and Internet connectivity. Then I ran "yum update" and, after several hours (I forgot to select faster servers! Doh!), X didn't work and my network connection was FUBAR. (Let me note here [because I just now thought of it] that the update ran overnight, so I have no idea when it finished updating or if anything in the process failed, but I did notice some RPC failures on the screen before I shut it down for work that morning. This is also the first time I've ever used yum.) I got X to work by running the 2.6.9 kernel instead of the updated kernel (2.6.11 I think?), re-running Xconfigurator, recompiling the NVIDIA driver, and re-editing xorg.conf. My NIC OTOH (an SiS900) works for about 15 secs. and then deactivates again. I've never seen this behaviour - they always either worked or not. As it stands now I'm severely crippled here at work without being able to get on any network with my laptop in Linux. PGA -- Paul G. Allen Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
