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

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/9/07, Jim Dever <jdever at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 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

Thank you for letting us know. :)
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung