Chris Hipp wrote: > After trying three different ethernet card with my computer and fedora > (one belkin reltek 8139too.o based, and two tulip based (linksys and > netgear)) I've come to the conclusion that using any ethernet card, as > soon as the card is pinged, hard freezes my computer, forcing a press of > the reset button. > > I have graphical boot disabled and this configuration worked fine in > redhat 9.0. > > Is there anyway I can debug this to find out what the problem is and > file a more useful bug than "ethernet breaks my configuration"? If your processor has APIC, # dmesg | grep -i apic, then read /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt. Maybe kernel-debuginfo has some kind of debugger inside :-? http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/debug/ can you change to a console (ctrl+alt+F1) ? -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically