John Ellenberger wrote:
Disabling kudzu might be a bit safer than powering off to force a disk check.Have been running Fedora on an older thinkpad (600X) since its release using a 3COM PC-Card networking card. After a few updates I am running into problems with the network not starting up properly. If I do a normal unattended reboot everything appears to come-up normally but the network isn't functioning (can't resolve/ping anything beyond localhost). If I do a hard shutdown and go through the file check sequence everything works. The machine is usable but it is pretty annoying (and dangerous) to always have to crash it when I'm rebooting.
Also disabling the rhgb (graphical boot) might help resolve the issue.
I ran dhclient from my rc.local file when I originally had my 3com problem. This worked, but included problems with certain applications not working properly.Any ideas what is going on here? Is there a way to force the network to start when it comes-up without properly initializing?
Check bugzilla for errors related to 3com cards and also this lists archives. There might be something which would help resolve your problem or at least bypass the problem until a resolution is achieved.
Jim
John
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