[PLUG] Re: New FC2 Install Fails to Recognize Ethernet Card

[Keith Morse]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 bthoen at gisnet.com wrote:

> I tried to install Fedora Core 2 on my PII machine yesterday, it never
> asked me to configure the ethernet card. It apparently didn't seem to
> recognize it. Now this same, exact hardware will work fine with RH 7.3,
> 8.0 and 9.0 (I've tried them all in the last couple of weeks.)
> 
> Since that machine is my email server, I couldn't ask for help with eth0
> DOA, so I went back to RH 9.0 and here I am. What I'd like to know is what
> might have gone wrong, and is there a way to manually configure an
> ethernet card if kudzu doesn't notice it? Everything else seemed to load
> up just fine. Or is a PII machine just too old for FC2?
> 
> Rummaging around, I did notice a complaint in /var/log/dmesg about the
> BIOS being 1997 vintage, but that was associated with something called
> SAPI (whatever this is), I think.  However, I don't see any bios warnings
> in the 9.0 dmesg file, and of course, everything works now. 
> 
> Anyway, if someone could give me some hints as to what to look for, and 
> how to debug these sorts of things, I may give FC2 another go.
> 


It's my understanding there is a bug in kudzu and some ethernet cards do 
not get setup properly.  And this happened to me also.  I ended up 
manaully configured the ethernet card then went to the FC2 mail list and 
found reference to the bug.  Mine is a 3Com 3C9XX card.