using any ethernet device freezes my configuration

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Chris Hipp wrote:

> After trying three different ethernet card with my computer and fedora
> (one belkin reltek 8139too.o based, and two tulip based (linksys and
> netgear)) I've come to the conclusion that using any ethernet card, as
> soon as the card is pinged, hard freezes my computer, forcing a press of
> the reset button.  
> 
> I have graphical boot disabled and this configuration worked fine in
> redhat 9.0.
> 
> Is there anyway I can debug this to find out what the problem is and
> file a more useful bug than "ethernet breaks my configuration"?

If your processor has APIC, # dmesg  | grep -i apic, then read
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt.

Maybe kernel-debuginfo has some kind of debugger inside :-?
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/debug/

can you change to a console (ctrl+alt+F1) ?
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