SIOCSIFFLAGS

Ofcourse it is not supposed to make sense, if it did it would not be a linux distro that we would be dealing with! If you can accomodate Dolphin, synaptic, atun then why not SIOCSIFFLAGS.

It is an error, that crops up when trying to boot FC8 on the Geforce 7025 motherboard. And since it is immediately preceeded by "eth0" I can safely conclude that it is the Realtek Gigabit LAN that is causing it. Unlike the other distros that managed to boot up well enough, FC8 stumbled even there.

The reason I returned to FC8 was because I got the DVD, without having to download it. Since Wine is a must have, and PC linux is having problems with it, I was hoping that FC8 with its popularity would offer fewer challenges. Things are not looking sunny after this.

The solution could lie in disabling the ETH interface from being started at boot time. To prevent this changes needed to be made in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifgcfg-eth0 file.