[Bugs] #596 UNSP: SoaS has no network access

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#596: SoaS has no network access
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    Reporter:  jdsimmons                  |          Owner:  sdz                        
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS                       |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  SoaS                       
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by jdsimmons):

 Simon,

 The only thing that worked well for me was the Plop Boot Manager diskette,
 a freeware product (not open source) you can get here:

 http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

 You install it on a diskette.  You boot up with the diskette and it gives
 you a menu of devices and partitions you might be able to boot from.  One
 of the entries is "USB".  It worked for me when my USB stick was inserted
 into a USB 1.1 port connected to the computer motherboard.  It did not
 work with a USB 2.0 port on a PCI card.  On an HP Vectra I had to use text
 mode (press Ctrl-Esc while its starting up) to get a menu, but it worked
 fine on an IBM NetVista using its default graphics mode.  Booting up was
 slow but everything but sound worked fine once it was booted.

 I used the recommended CD when I got the no network access I reported, and
 could not figure out how to use the Fedora install CD to boot up from the
 USB drive, as reported above.

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