I have exhausted all of the resources I am aware of trying to find a fix or workaround for this problem. Problem: When I attempt to shut down or reboot FC1, it hangs when it reaches "Shutting down interface eth0" Details: - If I do not activate the network card on boot, redhat-config-network just sits at "Activating network device eth0, please wait..." when I attempt to activate the network card when logged in. (The program does not freeze: I can press "Cancel.") - The same problem occurs when attempting to deactivate eth0 while logged in. - If I do not activate the network card on boot, FC1 hangs when it reaches "Shutting down loopback interface." - The problem occurs when rebooting or shutting down from either the gdm screen (after logging out) or from the gnome panel. - The problem does NOT occur if I do NOT login to gnome. This includes just logging in to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1). - The problem did NOT occur when I had Redhat 9 installed. (This is a clean install of Fedora Core 1, not an upgrade install.) - If I activate the NIC on bootup and login, it does work. - The computer is a HP zd7020 laptop with a RealTek 8139 NIC: dmesg reveals: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf9d25800, <MAC Address is here>, IRQ 4 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101' divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf9d25800, <MAC Address is here>, IRQ 4 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101' - The current boot command I am using is: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi acpi=on ide=nodma rhgb - I have tried acpi=off, pci=noacpi, noapic, and not using rhgb - I have tried removing S05kudzu from /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ - If I "ping <myStaticIPAddress>" or "ping 127.0.0.1", it does work. - I would be happy to provide further details. I would appreciate any advice or recommendations that anyone might have. -- Thank you for your time and help, Tom Lanari