[Coco] Linux box needs ethernet connection to router/web/LAN

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Apr 24 15:49:40 EDT 2007


On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Rod Barnhart wrote:
> >My dig at you *ahem* upgrading to Ubuntu was just to ruffle feathers
> >amongst others in the group. ;)
> 
> Nothing wrong with Ubuntu.. In the correct setting ;) (I'm a "right
> tool for the job" kinda guy... One distro does not fit all)
> 
> Back to the problem at hand, can you tell if RH is even picking up the
> network card? What chipset is it? ISTR, when I was running an older
> version of slackware that was about the same age as Roger's RH is, I
> had a few cards that I had to specify address and IRQ before they'd
> work. Others were truly PnP.

Ugh -- that should not be an issue w/ PCI devices.

Roger, please post the output of running "lspci -n" on the box in
question.  Also, cc: me directly if at all possible -- I'm starting
to tire of this thread... :-)

John
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John W. Linville
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