Help with my A20m ethernet adapter please

[Unix-SysV]

Hi,

I tried to connect my IBM Thinkpad a20m (very old machine) to the internet to download the g++ and fortran packages but when I connected its ethernet port to the network it wouldnt recognise the port

I remember using red hat 6 or so on one of these machines and the ethernet port was working well after mounting, it works on my XP partition also so I know its not a faulty connector.

This link below states that

"The on-board ethernet of the Thinkpad A20m was supported even before these machines existed. So basic support is no problem"

http://dag.wieers.com/howto/thinkpad/a20m/

so please can anyone guide me as to how I could enable my ethernet to work with Fedora, currently running the F11 release.

Or even some advice as to how I could manually overide settings to adapt to such?

I would love to get this machine functioning on the net without using an external wirless card etc

Thank you in advance !

Bump: please let me know what specific detais are required to help come to a solution.

Thanks

[stoat]

Hello Unix-SysV,

Actually, I think the NIC would have been recognized and a driver module for it would have been loaded before you connected it to the network. This might help you determine what NIC you have and if a driver is loaded for it...

lspci -k

If that looks okay, maybe it's a network thing. This might reveal if it has acquired an IP address from the network access point...

ifconfig

Sometimes there are DNS nameserver issues with Fedora 11. Maybe you have a working driver and an IP address but whatever you're using to download packages can't resolve domain names. You can try pinging www.google.com by its IP address like this...

ping 74.125.65.104

If that gets returns, then it may be the DNS name resolution thing. Entering some DNS nameserver IP addresses in whatever is controlling your connection may help.

No promises. Just guessing. Nobody else said anything all day long. At least I legitimately bumped your thread.

[Unix-SysV]

Hello Stoat,

I really appreciate your reply, altho once I type

lspci -k

The list of almost every device (includeing modem) is shown, but not the ethernet

Its beyond me too why this is so, but if I overcome this ill let yo uknow what was wrong


Thanks