Linux hangs at eth0 when going to init 1

[Elledan]

System: Celery 400, 160 MB SDRAM, RealTek 8139c NIC.
OS: SuSe Linux 7.3

Whenever I'm changing the runlevel from a higher level to 1, the system hangs at eth0 (stopping eth0...). This also happens when shutting down (or rebooting).

Any suggestions?

 

[rbaibich]

Isn't your ethernet card in conflict with some other peripheral? Have you tried pulling it off and testing?

 

[Elledan]

I should add some more information:

I've also Mandrake Linux installed on a second HD. Mandrake has no problems with the NIC, so I assume that it's limited to SuSe only. It used to work fine in SuSe before, actually.

 

[Nothinman]

How long have you waited for it to start? That's usually caused by the NIC being set to use DHCP but no DHCP server is available.

 

[Elledan]

<< How long have you waited for it to start? That's usually caused by the NIC being set to use DHCP but no DHCP server is available. >>


That's the funny thing: I'm not using DHCP at all.

 

[Nothinman]

Ah, I misread your post the first time. Type ifdown eth0 and see if it hangs doing that too. I don't know about SuSe but most distributions ifup an ifdown are just shell scripts, if they are (either open them in atext editor or run 'file `which ifdown`') run 'bash -x /sbin/ifdown eth0' and see what happens.

 

[Elledan]

When the system hangs at eth0, it becomes totally unresponsive. I've waited over 10 minutes once, but it didn't do anything after that time.

I found no such file (ifdown/ifup).

 

[Nothinman]

You'll probably have to find someone who's more versed in how SuSe handles those things then. You could try 'ifconfig eth0 down' and see if that hangs too, if it does it's probably a kernel or driver issue. You sure you have all their updates?

 

[Elledan]

Hmm... I'll probably just format the whole thing and install Slackware 8.0 on it. I got nothing on the system I can't afford to lose, so... =)