I just upgraded from fedora 6 to 7. The networking decided to stop working The OS is able to detect the hardware exists as an ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 device. I have it mapped to the tulip NIC driver. The LED is green and the cable works on other machines just fine. But when I try to bring Fedora's network on line via "ifup eth0" or anything else, it gives this error message:
"Failed; no link present; check cable?"

Does anyone have any ideas??

Go buy some food and sit down with a cup of coffee. The solution will arrive if you give yourself time to connect the dots.

I see two matching cases in Googleville. One says that the 2.4.24 kernel specifically is incompatible, the other was resolved with a firmware update.

Try Fedora 11? Not sure why you'd stick with a release that's so far in the past, though I can understand not upgrading to the bleeding edge because of backwards compatibility issues.

I can't get to Fedora 11 until I make it past Fedora 7.

Annoint the cable couplings with the sacred unguents and recite lines 5 through 17 of the Canticle of the Blessing of the Omnissiah.

Do you have links?

It seems that the chipset on that card might not work with the newer kernels. It's difficult to find a firmware update for a generic adapter, too. Might be time for an upgrade (and network cards are dirt cheap, as far as upgrades go).

I don't, and I apologize. I didn't think to save it, and I didn't think it'd be hard to get it back!

I did dig up a related thread. The first post is about a separate issue, but the discussion drifts to a complaint about the card, and the other users show success with either Fedora 6 or Fedora 8. I'll keep poking a bit longer to see if I can get the more informative thread to come back. If you'd like to look, the other two I found were from this same forum.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=180345

No, you're doing it wrong. (although the reference is total win)

That is the ritual for fusion coupling failure. What Roark -clearly- needs is laid out in line 67 of the Sacred Scripts of the God Emperor:
"And they shall never fall behind their contemporaries."

What this means is that this problem is his own fault for not following the Emperor's Decree, that he is a Heretic, and must be Purged in His Name!

Hmmm... I'm thinking an upgrade of the kernel might to the trick. Then when it's on-line again, I can download the rest. Hopefully the 2.6 kernel will work fine in the Fedora 7 installation.