Re: Networking issues - Fedora 8

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On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:30 -0600, Russell Golden wrote:
> I've been having a weird problem with my ethernet on Fedora 8... 
> Whenever I try to download updates, run the graphical package manager, 
> or do something that involves equivalent amounts of network activity, 
> something in Fedora (Don't know what, there's never any console message) 
> decides the network no longer exists and starts returning "Destination 
> Unreachable" for each packet. Disabling and re-enabling the Ethernet 
> card usually fixes this until a few seconds after I resume whatever 
> intensive activity I was doing. Sometimes however, that freezes the 
> network services, and all terminals (tty1-5 and console windows in X) 
> print what I assume is a backtrace. (If I can get that again, I'll send it.)
> I have not had this problem on any previous versions of Fedora or Red 
> Hat Linux on this machine.
> This is a laptop. The Ethernet card is a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 
> Rhine II.
> 
> Something else odd. On Fedora 7, on this same machine, Linux knew how to 
> activate my wireless card. Not just enable it from the network process, 
> but actually turn on the card and connect to something. In Fedora 8, it 
> can't activate the card anymore, and I need the wireless working for school.
> The wireless card is RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI. (copied 
> from the network configuration panel)
> 
> Has anyone else had these problems, and how do I fix them?
> 
Sounds like a DNS problem on the f8 machine but that is strange since I
assume they are using the same DNS server.
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