Thanks Andy, I have the latest BIOS from Dell. I'll try your other suggestion. Should I type in noacpi when the initial grub screen comes up? Thanks, Keith --- Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Keith Brentson wrote: > | Hello, > | I have just installed Fedora Core 3 on a Dell > Inspiron > | 8600. The Install seemed to go well until the > first > | boot up. The system froze when it was trying to > bring > | eth-0 up. It did this several times. I have the > newer > | version of the dell Inspiron 8600 with a Broadcom > 440x > | integrated network controller. I also have the > ATI > | Mobility Radeon 9600 pro turbo. > | I am a complete Linux Newbie, and some of the > | explanations I've seen are definitely over my > head. I > | would appreciate if I could get some help, or be > | directed to a help source suitable to my level. > > I have a "similar" setup on an Inspiron 5150 with > Broadcom 4401 Ethernet > ~ and it is working fine. Two ideas spring to mind, > both wondering if > the problem is to do with the Interrupt associated > with the Ethernet > controller and ACPI. > > 1) See if Dell have a BIOS update, and install it if > so (The only way I > found to do so was to create a bootable CD that > contains the Windows 98 > recovery floppy image, since there is no floppy on > my machine - thanks Dell) > > 2) If that doesn't fix it, at the grub display type > 'a' for append IIRC, > and add the word "noacpi" to the kernel command line > and see if that > makes any difference. > > - -Andy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCUjP8jKeDCxMJCTIRAgb6AJ0ejvIjlwxgN17O3dpkIMjXgd87OwCfSseE > 2CRKHmlQ6GRlzDIwHPf+rCA= > =uUUU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
