Boot temporarilly stalls on "Bringing up interface eth0"

[Jim Cornette]

Dylan Semler wrote:
> On 6/6/07, *Jim Cornette* <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com 
> <mailto:fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Regarding using the GUI tools instead of command line tools, I use the
>     GUI tools if available. Why not if they setup items correctly. 
> 
> 
> That's true.  It's just much more cumbersome to explain the steps when 
> troubleshooting.
> 
>     If you open up a terminal and run /sbin/lspci, what is the output for
>     the Ethernet?
>     There is some bug for one NIC type. This might be the one if it causes
>     so much trouble. I think it was E1000 but cannot recall the specifics of
>     the Ethernet card that has problems.
> 
> 
> If it's a laptop, is NIC still the right term?  Anyways the device is
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
> 
> It was working in all previous Fedora releases and I think this is a 
> pretty common laptop ethernet controller so I'm not skeptical about it 
> being a bug, but who knows.  Is there any way to get more output/debug 
> info when enabling the device?

There seems to be bugs filed that describe your problem in some aspects. 
The card must not be detecting whether the cable is connected or not in 
your instance.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242572

and

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242301

Regarding information about what is going on, dmesg and var/log/messages 
should let you know what is going on. I had trouble with a 3com card 
that worked since RHL 5.2 go bad from one release to a newer release one 
day. It took a long time to get that problem fixed. I believe messages 
is where I found most failure information.

Jim

> 
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