Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 256201
LiveCD network weirdness
Last modified: 2013-01-09 23:24:17 EST
After booting up off the LiveCD (a copy dated 25 May 2007), after "fedora" logged in, a pop-up window appeared in the upper-left-hand corner of the screen that said, "Connection established / You are now connected to the wired network". But I don't have an ethernet cord plugged into the laptop, only a wireless card which the LiveCD failed to initialize properly due to missing proprietary firmware. Though ifconfig shows an IP address (169.254.0.231 in addition to the loopback 127.0.0.1), when I try to ping a known IP address, it says "Network is unreachable".
can you give the output of /sbin/lscpi and /sbin/lsusb? Also, what's the output of 'cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier' when a cable is _not_ plugged in?
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