On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 17:57 +0100, pipinia@xxxxxx wrote: > Hi Timothy, > > thanks for your answer! > > > but you seem to be using IPv6 with Fedora, and IPv4 with knoppix. > > Maybe you should have IPV6INIT=no in ifcfg-eth0 ? > > I substituted 'IPV6INIT=yes' with 'IPV6INIT=no' in every 'ifcfg-eth0' > I could find and tried again --- unfortunately with no result :( > > Determining IP information for eth0...: failed > > ... as before. > <snip> I don't know if this is related or not, but once in a while kudzu messes me up. Can you try disabling kudzu and then rebooting (do a hard power off) and see if the card simply starts working? To disable kudzu (chkconfig kudzu off). At times kudzu, when polling hardware leaves that hardware in an unsteady state, and I believe this happened to me on those RealTek chipsets at one point in time.... HTH, --Rob
