** Reply to message from Jack Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:42:26 
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> Have a curious problem. I have been messing around with a future DMZ box and have 
> found that RH8 refuses to recognize the onboard NIC. Slackware 9 sees it perfectly 
> as a SiS900 based card. Neither kudzu nor a manual attempt will bring it to life. I 
> have tried the usual turning off of acpi/pnp aware settings in the BIOS as well as 
> setting the pci=noacpi switch in the bootloader to no avail.
> 
> I am just about to stick a Gentoo LiveCD in to see how it does. But I really would 
> like to put RH8 on there since that will simplify rsyncing stuff over from my 
> workstation. Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Jack
> 
> PS - And yes, I did disable the onboard NIC and tried two real NICs - an SMC and a 
> DLink - but RH8 would not see any of them.


Addendum - Gentoo RC1.4 has no problem recognizing the onboard NIC. Beautiful looking 
install for Gentoo but strikes me as perhaps the wrong build environment for a server.

Jack


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