What I wanted to add: Even under the old kernel, getting IP via DHCP on booting the system became very slow. I have no idea why, because after installing a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3 it was as fast as the wind behind my window ;-) On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 23:26 +0100, Maciek R. wrote: > So I am posting my configuration now: > > The Card is -> > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet > > ifconfig command output: > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:3343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:4174142 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:4174142 (3.9 MiB) > > route command output: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 > lo > > > ifcfg-eth0 file output: > > # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt > # for the documentation of these parameters. > IPV6INIT=no > ONBOOT=yes > USERCTL=no > PEERDNS=yes > TYPE=Ethernet > DEVICE=eth0 > HWADDR=00:c0:9f:42:33:e6 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:56 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > > Maciek R. said: > > > What I want to know either is: Is it important to keep your system up to > > > date? > > > > It depends if the update is just a feature update or a security update. > > > > > Is it important to update my kernel - even if my hardware will not > > > work after it? > > > > Kernel updates are generally to fix security issues (important to update) > > or to fix specific problems (not as important if it doesn't effect you). > > > > Perhaps you can give us enough information on your issue that we can help. > > Start with what kind of network card you have. Possibly the output of > > some basic network commands: > > > > ifconfig > > route > > > > The contents of /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 would > > probably help, too. > > > > -- > > William Hooper > > > -- > Maciek R. <m.mail@xxxxx> > -- Maciek R. <m.mail@xxxxx>
