eth0 ceases to function after reboot on FC5T3

[Jos Vos]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:38:21PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote:

> Fedora originally reported the MAC as being: 00:04:5A:55:96:57, but now Fedora
> and Knoppix are both reporting it as: FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  Very strange...

I've seen more than one Ethernet card dying this way, so it might
very well be a real hardware failure.

What you can try: power off the system completely, remove power cable,
wait 10 sec or so, plug in the cable and power on again and see if
something has changed.  At least with one piece of (bad) HW this
helped in the past (but it can go wrong again at every boot).

-- 
--    Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl>
--    X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: +31 20 6938364
--    Amsterdam, The Netherlands        |     Fax: +31 20 6948204