Fedora is horrible
 

I took a fully functioning pretty much base install of Red Hat 9 and installed Fedora Core 1. I performed a new install, not an upgrade. I have two very popular 3Com 3c905 network cards and Fedora refused to use them. Keep in mind this was a fully functioning machine just an hour before.

I have THE SAME EXACT PROBELM. I'm reinstalling without the firewall setup to see if DHCP works.

I installed this thing and got everything to work the way I want it too no problem. Sorry, to hear you're having such a bad time with it.

You do not need to reinstall anything.


This is very simple, I would not even consider this to be a problem, more like a lack of configuration of your nic.

run this as root

ifconfig -a

see what you get, if there is no eth0 showing up do this

modprobe 3c59x

and check it again

add this to /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 3c59x

configure eth0 to start at boot, run this as root

redhat-config-network

everything can be done from the gui if you want to.


now for the firewall you should not need to worry about that if you chose to enable a firewall at install. dhcp will work.

However to disable a firewall to check use this

service iptables stop