Ethernet in Fedora

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Giarc86

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I am currently doing a course through UNISA, and Fedora 2 is required to be used (why such an outdated one I don't know), but as it being outdated it can't find my on board Ethernet.

How would I go about getting it to work?

Thanks
 
First check if it's being found. Examing (or paste for us) the output of
Code: 
lspci
 
Lots of unknown devices there
# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ea (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e0 (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03eb (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f5 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f1 (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f2 (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f3 (rev a1)
00:05.0 Class 0403: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f0 (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ec (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ef (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f6 (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e8 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0421 (rev a1)
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what kernel are you using? Give us the output of uname -r?
 
What motherboard do you have?

The latest stable release on kernel.org is 2.6.29. Shows how old that kernel is. Probably best to head over to www.fedoraforums.org (may actually be www.fedoraforum.org - note one has an s one doesn't) and ask in their Networking section.
 
I am capped at the moment otherwise I would of Googled or gone to Fedoraforums.
The problem is that we have to use Fedora 2 for our studies, the exam and text book is set on Fedora 2 and I'm assuming the kernel as well, so I can't update it to the latest, which is 10 I think.

But as soon as I get cap, I will head on over there and ask

Thanks :)
 
PseudZ said:
I am capped at the moment otherwise I would of Googled or gone to Fedoraforums.
The problem is that we have to use Fedora 2 for our studies, the exam and text book is set on Fedora 2 and I'm assuming the kernel as well, so I can't update it to the latest, which is 10 I think.

But as soon as I get cap, I will head on over there and ask

Thanks :)
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Maybe the prof could give a reason why you need to use Fedora 2? Everything you learn should work on a later version. If not, you are being taught stuff that won't help you much in the "real" world.
 
Nod said:
Maybe the prof could give a reason why you need to use Fedora 2? Everything you learn should work on a later version. If not, you are being taught stuff that won't help you much in the "real" world.
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I did email him about using Fedora 10 instead of 2 and he said:
"It is stable during installation and does not cause hiccups. As for hardware it will recognize the popular mainstream stuff. If you look at Fedora 10, 8 out of 10 machines there is a problem either with the mouse and\or keyboard when installing already."

Funny though, most of the comments I have seen, people have struggled to install Fedora 2 mainly it doesn't detect SATA drives, and I am sure I am not the only one with Ethernet problems.

Older machines are fine for Fedora 2 I think, just newer machines are a problem with it not detecting everything.
 
This is just a suggestion and I could be totally wrong, but what about installing something like Fedora 10 (or whatever distro you prefer) and then installing Fedora 2 in a virtual environment (like VirtualBox).

I'm a huge Fedora fan, but cannot understand why educational institutions don't use Centos. It is more or less identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. :confused:
 
Kernel 2.6.5 is very, very old and back then there were no SATA, etc.

You are going to have quite a hard time getting that erthernet driver to load. What you need to do is head on over to nVidia site and download the Linux driver and compile it manually. You will probably have to load it yourself as well.

modprobe <module_name>
 
zamicro said:
Which course are you doing?
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NDINL: Information Technology - Web and Application Development

MyWorld said:
Kernel 2.6.5 is very, very old and back then there were no SATA, etc.

You are going to have quite a hard time getting that erthernet driver to load. What you need to do is head on over to nVidia site and download the Linux driver and compile it manually. You will probably have to load it yourself as well.

modprobe <module_name>
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I did go to NVIDIA's site but didn't have much luck finding my motherboard make, I'll see if I can get another type or so and see what I can do.

Thanks
 
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