[Fedora] FC6 not connecting

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Beartooth wrote:
> I also tried "cat
> /var/log/dmesg|grep eth0" and got nothing.
>   
    Try grepping for 'eth' in /var/log/messages.  See if that produces 
anything.  I have some machines whose drivers get logged there as 
opposed to dmesg.

> What should I be looking for in that log??
>   
    Something akin to:

Jan 29 06:59:35 trinity kernel: e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf4020000, 
irq 3, MAC addr 00:02:B3:BE:02:87

> I'm not even sure what a nic is; but I've owned this machine since it came
> out the door of the retailer (in 11/98), and nothing has been done about
> any ethernet card(s) in years. It has the same old 10/100 it's had since
> who goosed the moose, and nothing at all has been done to any of its
> hardware in many moons. I know it should work, and did work -- and has
> always figured itself out on boot.
>   
    The fact that it's so old might not be such a bad thing.  Sometimes 
because a cadr has been around for so long, there's a good chance its 
driver has too.  On the other hand, it's also possible that the driver 
has been ripped out of the current source code and you'd have to do 
things manually to get it working again.

    Like I said, let's start by checking to make sure the system knows 
the hardware is actually present.  Grep /var/log/messages and let me know.

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