On Monday 03 October 2005 17:36, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
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 ??
Bugs in ACPI can cause all sorts of weird problems in hardware. YaST checks for duplicates by sending an arping to the IP and then checking if what comes back is empty or not. It's entirely possible that a NIC with a buggy acpi problem can return garbage (not empty) and so be falsely detected as a dupe