[PLUG] Fedora Core 4 on Intel 946GZ

[AJAY JOSE]

Thats weird... although u should get the drivers after doin a google search
for em.
Anyways... in case u want FC 5 or any other linux distribution... you can
contact me.

Regards,
Ajay Jose


On 1/12/07, Nishit Dave <stargazer.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12 Jan 2007 06:11:13 -0000, Yogesh Hasabnis <yhasabnis at rediffmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am struggling with the installation of Fedora Core 4 on an IBM
> > ThinkCentre A55 machine. The machine uses Intel 946GZ chipset, Intel
> > Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card. The
> > installation procedure fails to configure the X. It also fails to load
> the
> > network card drivers(lspci shows the network card in it's output). Using
> the
> > modprobe command to load the tg3 module doesn't help as well. The module
> > gets loaded but the network card is not detected. Searched a lot on the
> > internet, but none of the docs helped. Has anybody installed FC4 on such
> a
> > machine?  Will the installation of FC5 help (I don't have the FC5 CDS
> > though)?
> >
> >
> You might perhaps be facing a problem of newer drivers within FC4.  You
> seem
> to have a decent set of hardware.  Why don't you try FC6?  I have a spare
> FC5 DVD that you can borrow, or an FC6 DVD that you can borrow for a
> *short*
> time.  You might still need some proprietary drivers.
>
> If you want the DVDs, contact me on my email ID.
>
> -nd
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