In desperation I booted with acpi=oldboot and the card ran. So configuration was sound the problem therefore must lie somewhere within the ACPI subsystem. All I need ot do now is try and figure out _which bit_of ACPI is caausing the problem so that I can either try and reconfigure it or selectively stop it. Quite why having ACPI enabled would cause YAST to inform me that there is a duplicate address I have no idea ?? Cheers F Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 03 October 2005 7:23 am, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Hi,
New laptop new problems. Trying to get eth0 (cat 5 at work ) up. Errors out with device or resource busy. Yast also repeatedly tells me that there is a duplicate address on the network (when the machine isn't connected to a network !!). Does anyone please have any suggestions?
Machine = HP pavilion dv1000 ( dv1355EA )
Please provide a bit more info. First, in command line, run ifconfig and see what it tells you for eth0. The go to YaST/Network Devices/Network Card
What does the line under "Already Configures Devices" show?
Then go into Change/Edit That should show your MAC address(eth-id-00:<MAC address>).
Then click on automatic setup via DHCP.
You may have a static address at work. There you will need to set your IP address, subnet mask, name servers, and your default gateway.
Also, please indicate where in this process that you are receiving the message.