Re: Ethernet interface not working in 8.0

[David McGlone <dmcglone edificationweb com>]

On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:19 pm, Burnie West wrote:
> 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

Hi Burnie,

Sorry that didn't work for you. 

Bob's article was interesting, and does make a lot of sense. But the things I 
have heard about RH 8.0, I think it's best to stick with 7.3 and keep it 
up-to-date. If I keep the maintenance up with my 7.3, I'll have almost the 
equilivent to 8.0 but, without bluecurve.

I hear they stripped MP3 Capabilities out of 8.0, and there is a quick fix for 
it, but why should the user have to go through that just to play MP3's.

I say 7.3 is the best RH release so far.

And this is coming from a former SuSE and Mandrake user.

IMHO, you should go back to 7.3 and stick with what works.
-- 
David M.
Edification Web Solutions
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