<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, wrong is a hard word. I would sway you make your live difficult ;-) replace the <pre wrap="">pci=irqmask=10 </pre> with pci=routeirq and give it a try. see you Frank Xiyang Chen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid21276621050416100713d22948@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 16/04/05, Frank Sander <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:FrankSanderDo@vodafone.de"><FrankSanderDo@vodafone.de></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi I had the same problem and figured in demsg, that the irq routing has been changed. -------snip dmesg------------ ** Routing PCI interrupts for all devices because "pci=routeirq" ** was specified. If this was required to make a driver work, ** please email the output of "lspci" to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bjorn.helgaas@hp.com">bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</a> ** so I can fix the driver. ------snap dsmeg-------- pci=routeirq entered on the kernel boot parms helped in my case. see you Frank Xiyang Chen wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I had a problem after "yum update" my FC4t2 system. It got stuck at "determining IP configuration" for quite a long time when starting up, and the system could boot successfully but the network failed to function correctly. The DNS service seemed completely down. Here is the error message shown on screen when booting: icmp open socket: Permission denied. What caused this? Any solutions? Thanks. Xiyang </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Please forgive my ignorance, but I am a complete newbie to linux. I tried 'lspci' command and found the irq of my ethernet adaptor is '10'. Then I added the following parameter to boot: pci=irqmask=10 But it still failed when starting the network. The message looked like this: Bringing up eth0... Determining IP information: ping: icmp open socket: permission denied [failed] ..... Starting Router discovery... [failed] Was I doing the right thing? </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>