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Help with my A20m ethernet adapter please

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi, I tried to connect my medievil warrior (IBM Thinkpad a20m) to the internet to download the g++ and fortran packages but when I connect it to the network it wont recognise the port :mad: I remember using red hat 6 or so on one of these machines and the ethernet port was worked, it works on my XP partition also so I know its not faulty. 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. Thank you in advance :) (HowTos)

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