On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:49, Ben Vitale wrote: > Hi folks, > > This problem seems unrelated to the Fedora OS itself. > > Upon startup, after the memory test, when my Realtek 8139 ethernet card > initializes (?), I see the following: > > Realtek 8139A/B/C / RTL8130 PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.11 (001205) > Client Mac Address: ...... GUID: ....... > Client IP: ...... Mask: ..... DHCP IP: ....... > Gateway IP: ..... > > All the addresses/values that display are correct. But then it stops. > And hangs (indefinitely, far as I can tell). If I start the machine > with the ethernet cable unplugged, it bypasses this situation > completely, after which I can plug in the ethernet cable and eth0 comes > up with no issue in FC2. > > This problem only recently started occurring when I got Comcast for > Internet. I had no such problems with my LAN at school. I couldn't > find anything in the BIOS to somehow disable this media check upon startup. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben Ben, This is a sort of me too reply. I also have a 8139 card (dlink DFE-530+, I think). When connected to a Linksys Router, sometimes the interface failed to start, but always failed to stop at shutdown. A tulip based card did not exhibit the any problems. With a dlink router the 8139 card always works. The tulip card worked with either router. Moral of the story: Go buy another (non 8139-based) NIC. The 8139 cards are slow and generally suck. Bob...
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