On 12/09/2011 09:43 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:14:08AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Vreme: 12/08/2011 10:38 AM, Jeff Gordon piše: >>> Hi, John -- >>> >>> Thanks. :-) Looks like it'd be Fn + F3 on this one, but I suspect they set >>> it up to work that way with Windows. There's no light to be seen anywhere, >>> and pressing it made no difference to CentoOS netinstall. >>> >> Netinstall will not be able to see the change while loaded. You should >> try changing on/off once, and the boot netinstall again. >> >> -- >> >> Ljubomir Ljubojevic >> (Love is in the Air) >> PL Computers >> Serbia, Europe >> >> Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your >> trusty Spiderman... >> StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks. :-) As indicated in previous reply, it does appear NetworkManager > receives the signal. HOWEVER, thanks to Tom I'm looking at progress messages > at both available consoles, and here's what's being said: > > INFO : going to pick interface > ERROR : iBFT deosn't couldn't provide valid NIC MAC address > INFO : only have one network device: wlan0 > > ...which, while kind of an obscure message, at least tells me why I've never > yet seen the DSL connection light come on with CentOS netinstall. I've done > _two_ netinstalls of Debian on this machine, using eth0, but CentOS seems > dissatisfied with it for some reason and won't use it. > > That seems to mean I'll have to go back to Debian. (?) > Hi there Jeff, well I can only tell about the very early times of Linux with kernels below 1.00, around 20 years ago ... ;) Don't know how this is going to work with CentOS nowadays, my labor is just building yet. So, back to the context, there are three ways afaik though bringing CentOS up: 1) Loading the network module for your Acer after netinstall has come up from any device you can see until then, perhaps an USB drive. That might be the 'easiest' way. In former times this had to be done f.e. for SCSI-drivers via good old YaST ;) Of course you first have to download the driver with a running system from a CentOS-mirror. 2) Not using netinstall, but I guess you have no CDDROM built in. 3) Perhaps another solution could be first installing another system (debian?) and then creating a bootable device with all needed stuff on. Sorry for the only abstract description, I'm sure some freaks can give concreter hints. Cheers, Bert.