e100 error

[Tim]

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.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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