Jerry Geis wrote: > I have not see this before... > Installing centos 5 on m2n-mx motherboard the onboard forcedeth > driver loads and says invalid mac address "97:42:40:F3:18:00" > > Anyone else ever seen this before? Is it fixable? I went to i saw something similar with my forcedeth on my asus board. currently booted fedora, but i suggest it's the same doing compare your output of ifconfig and the output of the related lines (ethx) from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf regarding your mac address. if they are different, then - remove or backup /etc/modprobe.conf - remove or backup /etc/sysconfig/hwconf - (maybe a modprobe -rv forcedeth; modprobe -sv forcedeth) - run kudzu ( writes new files: modprobe.conf, hwconf) - reconfigure your network with: System -> Administration->network, especial here the mac-address (via edit-> tab hardware device) cause there are hardlinked ... -- ronald