[Fedora-livecd-list] Intenet access with LiveCD?

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 21:43 -0500, Jim Dever wrote:
> Intenet access was obtained by:
> 
> ifdown eth0
> modprobe -r dmfe
> modprobe -r tulip
> modprobe dmfe
> ifup eth0
> 
> Evidently the tulip and dmfe modules togehter have a conflict with my
> network card.  I'm hoping this can be solved after an install by
> blacklisting the tulip module.

Weird. Users should never have to blacklist modules nor even know what a
LKM is. So this should probably get filed in Bugzilla at

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core

and if you can paste the bug number here I'll follow up with one of our
kernel dudes, thanks! Basically, if you have a driver that works the
live cd should automatically connect to wired network using DHCP. 

Likewise, if your wireless chipset is supported and you have the
firmware etc. connecting to a wireless network (either cleartext, WEP,
WPA, etc.) via DHCP should be as easy as selecting it from a drop-down
menu.

So, in 99% of all cases, non-working network connectivity is most likely
either a kernel/driver bug or simply missing firmware / drivers.

      David