Hi again Andy,
I typed an "a" when I saw the grub screen, then it chanaged screens. I typed in noacpi, but it didn't seem to work either. It still froze up when eth0 was starting. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Regards,
Keith
--- Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
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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.
- 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)
- 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
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