eth0 ceases to function after reboot on FC5T3

[Dane Mutters]

On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:34 am, Jos Vos wrote:
> 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).
>
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That fixed it!  It now reports the MAC address of "00:04:5A:55:96:57".  It 
does look like it's at least somewhat hardware-related.  The one question I 
have, though, is why does this this card work with the wrong MAC address in 
Knoppix, but not in Fedora?  Could it have to do with Kudzu segfaulting?  

Thanks for your help, everybody.

--Dane