PC Stalling during Bootup while "Starting Network"

[landholl 0]

I have posted on this topic before but am still having problems. I have a desktop with two hard drives. I have Win 2000 on the local disk, and have installed Fedora COre 1 on the slave drive, using the GRUB boot loader at startup to choose between the two. I originally had an ethernet card installed tha was used with wIN 2000 that is connected directly to my cable modem. I installed Fedora and during setup Eth0 was detected, and I chose to auto detect DHCP. Once installation was complete, I rebooted, and during startup the computer stalls while "Starting Network". This stall requires a reboot I have let it sit for hours with no change. I tried installing a new NIC card and reinstalling Fedora, and get the same problem. When I take out the NIC card and install Fedora the system boots fine. I really am new at this, and trying to get through this frustration. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Landin

[LnxAddct 0]

You said that the eth0 card was hooked up directly to the cable modem? Try reinstalling Fedora without the auto DHCP. When your in Fedora you should be able to connect to the net through one of its utilities (I have DSL and it works fine, not sure about cable but it shouldn't be much different). When you make the connection then all of your gateway and dhcp settings should be automagically made. The autoDHCP with the cable modem could be causing unexpected problems so make sure its disabled. If you have any trouble finding the utilities or with anything at all I'll try my best to help. You don't by any chance have a small network at home do you? Where you could ping other machines or something and make sure your card works ok under Linux. It should work fine (I've never seen an eth0 card that didnt) but its still a small possibility. What year is your machine? Anyother details you could provide would be great as well. good luck.

Regards,

Steve