From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 Description of problem: When booting up, kudzu runs before pcmcia, so it believes that my network card disappeared. But the card is PCMCIA, and pcmcia is not running when kudzu runs. Catch-22... :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-1.1.62-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install FC2 2.boot up for the first time 3. Actual Results: kudzu fails to find PCMCIA network card Expected Results: kudzu should report nothing, since the hardware config didn't change Additional info: I know it's a tough call. On one hand, you must run kudzu early enough. On the other, pcmcia has its own constraints. Maybe run kudzu once before pcmcia, and configure it to ignore pcmcia. Then run it again after pcmcia, and tell it to look only for pcmcia.
I have also replicated this problem. I find that the only work around is for me to remove the device and recreate it after logging in. Doing a simple ./sbin/service network restart is not enough. I have to create the eth0 device afresh for the connection to work.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.