Hi, everyone, I have one older IBM system running F11. I am trying to upgrade the video card. I bought a PNY version NVIDIA GE Force 5200 PCI board to use. When I plug it in and connect the video, the system boots and goes through the full F11 bar display, the screen goes blank and after a few seconds I get an error message: e100:eth0 NIC Link is up 100Mbps full duplex ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE):eth0: link becomes ready which flashes for a few more seconds, then becomes stable with an underscore cursor beneath it. when I attempted to Google it, All I found were references to F12 (which this machine refuses to run anyway, I'm hoping for F13 to fix that). It appears though that hitting return when you see this message in F12 will let the machine proceed. Not so, when I hit return, the cursor moves down one line but nothing further happens. The changes recommended have to do with setting some options in some of the bootscripts. Here is one thread discussing the issue: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11998 However, this doesn't seem to fit. The only thing changing in my system is the adding of the PCI based video card. How can that affect the hardware setup of the NIC card? Moreover, why is the renaming taking place at all to begin with? Mac addresses are supposed to be unique. Is there a manufacturer or subset of manufacturers who are not following the rules, or have the number of cards exceeded the number of available addresses? But these questions detract from my base question:: How do I get my system to work properly with the new card? The reason I am doing this is to eliminate video streaking on the subject computer which occurs with the built in intel chipset. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
