On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 19:46, Bill Beeman wrote: > > From: Chris Hipp > > > > 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"? > > Your symptoms are different than I had, but there have been a number of > issues reported involving kudzu and ethernet cards. You might take a > look > at Bugzilla 107389. > > You could try disabling kudzu (chkconfig --level 35 kudzu off) and see > if that helps. The initial report, and my case involved 3Com cards, but > there have been other mentions of kudzu related wierdness also. > > Bill I already had kudzu turned off, I don't like to wait during startup (and I've had to restart a lot recently due to this problem.) After reading that bug I am going to try to downgrade to the redhat 9 errata kernel, I imagine that will solve my problem though I am still curious what the problem is. Thanks, Chris
