Unfortunately, this does not seem to be my problem. Disabling graphical boot does not stop my computer from freezing. On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:19, Trevor Barton wrote: > Chris Hipp wrote: > > I have a Netgear fa310tx rev. 2 chipset ethernet card. Installation > > automatically configured and loaded the tulip driver for this card. > > However, using this card causes my system to freeze hard (must be reset > > using hardware button.) So much as pinging my computer kills it. I > > switched to using the tulip_old driver and stability increased somewhat, > > it doesn't freeze instantly but eventually does. This card worked > > perfectly in Redhat 9.0. I have a clean Fedora Core 1 installation. > > > > I need help resolving this problem or gathering more useful debugging > > information. > > There is a thread "FC1 pcmcia network card failure" in which I and someone else > have had problems with a Netgear card - a different card and different problem > but the same driver. This was resolved by removing the graphical boot option by > setting GRAPHICAL=no in /etc/sysconfig/init. There may be a problem where some > of the memory used by the ethernet card is later reused by X, which in our case > was stopping the card from working. It's equally possible that that could kill > the machine. Try that solution and see if it works. > > Trev
