Oh dear, that shouldnt be happening. I've no similar reports for the FDDI
card so it could be a hardware dislike. Does the card behave under other OS's
> Oh, one more thing: the MAC address field on the FDDI card after ifconfig
> is extremely long, but looks sort-of valid. Do FDDI cards have wierd MAC
> addresses, or is this really one of the symptoms of a hardware or software
> conflict, as I would normally assume?
Probably the slackware net-tools are out of date or not built to include FDDI
pick up a current set off ftp.uk.linux.org (1.32 you want) and include FDDI.
This has no bearing itself on the crash however