Fedora Core 3 from Core 1

[Vernon Brown_4]

I have Fedora Core 1 working fine on a 4 gig partition; I kept that and installed Fedora Core 3 on a 21 gig partition on the same HD.

Core 3 doesn't complain on boot but after booting I can't ping through either of the two eth cards.

eth0 is set to static IP
eth1 is set to DHCP from a cable modem.
#ifconfig
shows different interrupt on Core 3 than on Core 1, which still works fine.

From Google search I find many similar problems; so far no fix. Does anyone know how to fix this ??

[Andrew Cowan]

Try running system-config-network and then check and resave the card configurations. I had a similar problem with Redhat ES 3.0 and a soundcard/network configuration. It never complained during boot, however the soundcard gave an error whenever I ran the tests on it. My eventual solution was to fix the IRQ/IO in system-config-network, reboot and then remove the IRQ and resave.

[Manuel Wolfshant]

First of all make sure the cards have the IP addresses they should. It is possible to have the cards switched, due to difference in resources' allocation by kernel 2.6 versus 2.4. The different IRQ allocation is a possible sign of this phenomenon.
Second, in case you have 3Com cards, try to disable kudzu. In my case, it turned out that kudzu does "something" which locks the card.
Third, you might try a different kernel. Preferrably newer.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

There was no change in normal network functionality FC 1 to 3. Kernel upgrade, things like that.

I would try and mount the FC1 partition while running FC3 and copy the contents of this directory across:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Back up the original content.

copy in the contents.

service network restart

Now network functionality should work just like it did on the FC1 partition.

I think what happened here is either user error due to the new wizard for setting up networking, or a bad wizard.

SEP

[Manuel Wolfshant]

S. Potter said:
> There was no change in normal network
>functionality FC 1 to 3. Kernel upgrade,
>things like that

Except for the fact that kernel 2.6 _sometimes_ scans the PCI bus in another order and allocates the ethernet interfaces the other way around (then 2.4).
Been there, seen that.

[Vernon Brown_4]

Thanks guys; Great Place this !!!


Copying the contents of the Core 1 sysconfig to the Core 3 partition did the trick.

Vern