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

[Jim Dever]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I realize this is a thread I started a long time ago but just wanted you
guys to know that the Fedora 7 Test 4 LiveCD works with my network card
(a Cnet PRO200WL PCI) straight out of the box and without any fiddling
around.  Glad to see it!

Thanks!

Jim