From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: Just FYI: When dual booting (have only used Win98) on an intel 850GB MLB using onboard NIC, configured for dhcp, and activated on startup Linux automatically uses the Win98 "computername" as its host name. This causes gnome to go haywire and freeze. If the windows computer name is changed and the system is then booted to linux the hostname also changes to match. The problem seems to stem from the onboard NIC holding on to the windows hostname (this would imply a memory area that fakes a dhcp reply to speed windows boot times). When i changed to a standard PCI NIC and reinstalled Red Hat the problem was gone. Ps. It took me 10 or 12 reloads before it occoured to me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure a system using the intel 850GB motherboard w/ onboard pro100b NIC, and 2 fixed disks. 2. load windows of hdd1 3.Setup windows for dhcp (broadband, dsl....) 4 load linux on hdd2 set eth0 for dhcp. 5. start lunux and check the hostname at a bash prompt, it will match the windows computername. Additional info:
ENOCLUE - don't have the hardware available, so can't reproduce the problem. If you find a solution for using the onboard NIC, please let us know.