Thanks Michael for your reply. After poking around google I found the FIX
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=139541 As of 27 May 2007, in kernel 2.6.21.3, you may experience the issues with the r8169 driver if you dual boot Windows on some systems. Windows by defaults disables the NIC at Windows shutdown time in order to disable Wake-On-Lan, and this NIC will remain disabled until the next time Windows turns it on. The r8169 driver in the kernel does not know how to turn the NIC on from this disabled state; therefore, the device will not respond, even if the driver loads and reports that the device is up. To work around this problem, simply enable the feature "Wake-on-lan after shutdown." You can set this options through Windows' device manager. Edit: Problem with dual-booting with Windows exist also in 2.6.19.5 and 2.6.20.8 kernel, so it is safe to assume that it will concern all 2.6 kernels until the kernel developers update the drivers for RTL8168 to the version that will be able to turn on the NIC from disabled state. (Corey) Second edit: Powering off and unplugging the machine for a few seconds (around 10 usually does it) seems to reset the card, so it will work in Linux again until you boot Windows again. The FIX is In XP enable "Wake-On-Lan after shutdown" as well as make sure power management for the ethernet card is disabled as well. See link below for graphical snapshots on how to do this under windows XP http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2077619&postcount=39 Then I reinstalled Fedora 7 again and network card is working fine. As it turns out FC7 could see the network card eth0 but XP had blocked it for usage under FC7. Nasty Windows!! I am using a Realtek 8168 chipset ethernet card.. With Thanks and Best David On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24/03/2008, at 3:09 PM, D.V.Rogers wrote: > > Fedora does not recognise the Ethernet Card. > > It knows the eth0 is their but asks me to check the connection... > > I have tested this as it works fine with XP using DHCP. > > It is strange as I have set up dual boot boxes before using FC7 and XP > > with No problem > > > > Any suggestions on how to fix this? > > First, find out what ethernet card you have, then google for something > like fedora *card model*, > > Look for eth related messages in the output of the command `dmesg` > There might be some clues there that you can google. > > The command `lspci` might tell you the card model, if dmesg doesn't. > > Let us know how you go. If you like, pastebin the output of dmesg and > lspci > if you get lost. > > -- > Michael Chesterton > http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ > http://barrang.com.au/ > > > > -- D.V.Rogers Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork 28th June - 28th September 2008 Parkfield California USA http://blog.allshookup.org http://allshookup.org/parkfield -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
