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Hello,
I am running mandrake 10.1 Community edition on a vprmatrix 220a5 laptop. I am experiencing a problem I have experienced with several distros running the 2.6.x kernel. When I try to shut down or reboot, the system hangs and I have to hard reset. However, if I boot the system with the network cable disconnected, it shuts down/reboots cleanly.
The last message displayed when shutting down isn't consistent. And I never experienced this problem running Redhat 9.0.
What can I do to diagnose and solve this problem? Has anyone experienced this before, and how can it be solved!
When I reboot from console, I normally type "reboot" or "shutdown -r" and it turns off the computer in the same manner as when I shut down from KDE. The last message that's displayed isn't consistant each time. And I do have DHCP enabled, as I need it for internet connectivity (I'm on a college campus).
I tried that, but my system hanged (hung?) when I tried to turn off the network. So it appears that the system hangs when I attempted to deactivate the network...any suggestions?
maybe a prob with your network card. what does dmesg say about it?
another:
try the way UsualTuxpect suggested and reconfigure the network with
ifconfig ethX 0.0.0.0 before.
does it happen with a 2.4 kernel or just with 2.6?
please post type of your network card & what dirvers u use.
have you iptables set up on that box?
sound quite weired to me...
well, do a lspci -vv for the network-card. this will give more info. also post nfo 'bout your irq allocation (cat /proc/interrupts) or post the whole lspic output. i assume you have acpi enabled, so try booting with acpi=off. maybe it's related to powermanagement, but i'm guessing now.
have you googled on that issue. sometimes you're lucky and somebody had the same troubles before.
iptables -L -v will give you a list of active firewall rules.
so it's related to the 2.6.? kernel. what sub version(s)?
i suggest to look for similar problems at www.tux.org/lkml/ , the kernel mailing list. mybe post there, but the list is somewhat crowded, so don't be sure to get an answer:-(
to you need 2.6 for any reasons? if not i'd keep using 2.4 for now.
if it's a module, see if there are options for it with "modinfo xxx".
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