Norm Higgs wrote:
> My NIC is not detected at start-up.
>
>
>>>To set your IP addy for your eth0 device, if you are running a graphical
>>>desktop, try clicking the Fedora icon ('Start' menu in Windows, then
>>>selecting something like 'System Tools | Network Device Control'
>
>
> Under Network Device Contol, there is nothing listed at all. No devices.
Ok... this is possibly the case because you have an unsupported NIC.
I am running Red Hat Enterprise, and IIRC, you are running Fedora, so
they should be pretty similar. Check the Fedora website, to see if your
NIC is supported. I have been lucky so far, with Netgear, and the
generic SMC NIC's that I scrounge from older computers.
NIC's are really cheap, and as a builder, you might (like me) have a
drawer full of them, lying around. If you have one that is supported,
just swap it into the case, and when you restart Linux, the 'kudzu'
application will find the new hardware, and ask if you want to configure
it, and if you say 'yes', you will have that problem out of the way,
with very little messing around.
>>From what I have read, I have determined that I need to install a module
> called 'sundance.o', it is supposed to initialize my NIC, but I can't figure
> out where to find it. If anyone can help me find this thing and install, I
> would
> be most grateful!
I don't have any experience with this. It might turn out to be something
that requires a kernel recompile... something I have not yet tried doing.
A few years ago, Linux was a real pain, where finding supported hardware
was concerned, but nowadays, most newer versions support more hardware
out of the box than Windows does.
--
-wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
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