I thought it was a Fedora issue but I tried Opensuse 10.2 running Xen on the same machine and it had the same problem. Next to it, I had a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop running FC 6 with Xen, accessing the Internet just fine. On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 01:24 -0800, Vinay Bhardwaj wrote: > yeah I have had the same issue, tried with non - xen and infact ubuntu > as well, NIC has stopped working on Linux completely while works > absolutely fine on Windows. BTW I have a dual boot. Do you also have Dell Inspiron? Do I understand it correctly that the network didn't work for you even with non-xen kernels? Jindrich > Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:14 +0000, rich3800@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > After installing Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 9100, I > lose > > Internet access, which was working during the install. What > could be > > wrong? The onboard nic is Broadcom 4400-based or similar. > > Have you tried to use non-xen kernel? The b44 module is known > not > functional with xen kernels (it won't work if you use > 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen and previous kernels) > > For reference please have a look at: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/208242 > > One user complains that the b44 module still doesn't work for > him with > Dell Inspiron 6000 with the new kernel containing the fix: > > http://people.redhat.com/sct/packages/kernel/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2857.4.2.fc6.0.2.sct/ > > even though it works almost for all other notebooks with > Broadcom (HP in > my case) so it seems like the whole Dell Inspiron series is > somehow > special.. > > Jindrich _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
