rh 7.0 hangs "Shutting down eth0:" on 7935

[bob smith_6]

I just got a pavilion 7935 and installed Redhat 7.0. I had to set the bios to PnP "NO" to get the onbard NIC to be kudzu'd. Now, when I shut down (via 'halt' or ctrl-alt-del to reboot) it hangs during shutdown right after it says

Shutting down interface eth0:

Any ideas how to get a clean shutdown? (Without it, I'm stuck waiting on fsck for this 40 gig drive.)

Thanks!

[Jim Booker]

This may not be any help, but have you tried rebuilding the kernel with
"make xconfig" and looking for your
onboard nic? I was having a similar
problem prior to RedHat 7.2, and that
solved my problem.

[bob smith_6]

Because I couldn't shut down, it required an fsck on every boot. Because it required fsck on boot, I could not install the sources RPG to rebuild the kernel :o(

I ended up just reinstalling everything on the 7.0 CDs from scratch and for whatever reason, it works now.
Bob