Re: Ethernet interface not working in 8.0

[Burnie West <bgwest mindspring com>]

At 09:45 PM 12/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> On Sunday 01 December 2002 09:18 pm, Burnie West wrote:
> > This appears to be a more common problem than I thought. <snip>
> Hi Bernie,
>
> I had a similiar problem. Here is how I fixed my problem. I am still using RH
> 7.3 so I don't know if this may work in 8.0 but it's worth a shot.

Gave it a try.  I actually had had no difficulty in the connection using 7.3;
the difficulty arose when I upgraded to 8.0.  I tried both with and without the
rebooting you mentioned.

Unfortunately, no success yet.  I appreciate your staying with the old reliable
7.3 -- for me it was new also as I just installed it in late October.  I had
not done anything significant (just installed and built Amaya and Firebird) so
when 8.0 came out, I supposed I had no serious risk in upgrading.  Now that I
have these problems, and have joined this list, I read Bob McClure's great
essay on his conservative dual-install strategy, but too late!  Since you just
come onto this list yourself, you may not have seen it, and might want to take
a look at

        http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/duplicate_root.html

                        -- Burnie