On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:30 -0800, Les wrote: > 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? If the PCI busses share an IRQ, things can get pernickity. Try a different slot, or re-arranging the order of cards in slots. I used to strike that kind of thing all the time. Though in more recent years, with all-on-the-motherboard peripherals, I haven't had to put in several cards, any more. > Moreover, why is the renaming taking place at all to begin with? Mac > addresses are supposed to be unique. There have been cards known to have duplicate MACs, though I don't recall who and how far spread it was. And I didn't see your message mentioning how the MAC changed. > The reason I am doing this is to eliminate video streaking on the > subject computer which occurs with the built in intel chipset. Hmm, hardware fault, or software driving problem? A hardware fault could be having several effects, only some of which would be immediately obvious. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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