I installed FC5-t2 about six weeks ago. It has been updated to
rawhide daily since. Thurs. morning I enabled kudzu, shut down,
removed a pci D-link nic card (8139too) to try an solve dsl
connection problems (drops). On boot I entered bios an enabled the
onboard 3Com 3c940 (skge) nic on my old Asus A7V600. Rebooted an
kudzu found the changed nic an configured it for the connection. dsl
problems have stopped since.
Thurs. (yesterday) afternoon I shutdown to boot the new kernel
(1955). I noticed a mesg that the hwaddr for my nic was wrong...
ignoring. After booting back up, dsl started on boot an everything
was workin properly.
I looked in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 an
sure'nuff, the HWaddr shown was different than what '/sbin/ifconfig'
reported (I'm sure the d-link's numbers), so I edited the file (which
also changed the two ifcfg-eth0 files linked to it). BTW, ifcfg-eth0
from my previous distro, Mandriva cooker, didn't even have a HWADDR=
entry. Shutdown to test, an the warning was gone.
There might be another ingredient to this. As with all distros
since I've had sbc adsl (pppoe), I've had to edit ifcfg-eth0 to,
BOOTPROTO=none, from =dhcp, even tho this is a dynamic ip connection
(1.5Mb/384kb). Otherwise on boot up, it hangs on eth0 till it times
out (fails). Even tho eth0 is then workin properly after boot up.
I've searched bugzilla an only found one unrelated HWADDR bug. So,
shouldn't of kudzu taken care of the eth0 config edit ?, an do y'all
think this should be reported (bugzilla) ? It's really a very minor
thing, but could confuse an disturb newbies.
TIA, sorry for being long winded, but I'm tryin to be complete
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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