Hi, I just put Fedora on a USB stick I've got. I selected my USB drive on start up and it went through the boot process but right when I'm expecting the black screen to go away and a nice and pretty graphical interface to pop up, it goes to a blank black screen and does nothing but display the following message: uli526x: eh0 NIC Link is Down After that comes up nothing happens. Ever. What the heck is it trying to tell me? Is it demanding my computer be hooked up to a network via ethernet? If so, I'm deleting Fedora and never coming back. Thanks, *Me* Certifiably Crazy

Sounds like there's an issue starting your ethernet card. If the card is a PCI or other add-in card, remove it and try again. If the ethernet is onboard, try to disable it in the BIOS, then try again.

Okay now... I went into the network connections page (windows) and disabled the ethernet. Then I went into the Hardware Manager and checked to make sure the hardware is indeed disabled. Then I rebooted into my USB Fedora. ADDRCONF (NETDEV_UP): eth0 link is not ready uli526x: eth0 NIC Link is Down By what I can guess, translated into english it's telling me... Error: The ethernet hardware is disabled. Error: The ethernet cable is unplugged. Is there a way to make it shut up and ignore the ethernet? I connect using a USB wireless adapter and WILL NEVER connect using ethernet. Thanks for the response, *Me* Certifiably Crazy

It doesn't care about your nic. There is another problem. Try the stick on a different computer. What did you use to install the distro to the usb? "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

It is too my motherboard's networking card. I went into the system bios and disabled it there after I disabled it in the Hardware Manager. This time it got to the same spot in the boot process but instead of displaying a blank screen and an error message or two, it just displayed a blank screen, then sat there staring at me funny as if to tell me to 'Go Fish'. I booted the USB Fedora 10 on my mom's laptop and my dad's desktop and they both work fine. My mom's laptop only has a wireless card, it doesn't have onboard ethernet. My dad's desktop is the same as mine except his is plugged into the family's wireless router via ethernet and it doesn't have a wireless networking card. I installed Fedora 10 i686 onto my USB drive via the "liveusb-creator-3.6.5" program hosted on the Fedora website. Certifiably Crazy

Use boot options, disable stuff or just start at safe mode. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

Sorry bud, but that's not very helpful. You might as well have said 'Sorry, I have no idea.' Certifiably Crazy