Bug 100876
Summary: | pcnet32 network card stops functioning after installation | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Carl T. Miller <carl> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | beta1 | CC: | carl, pfrields, riel |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-08-25 16:01:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Carl T. Miller
2003-07-26 13:06:24 UTC
vmware's network driver is buggy in respect to link status. I'm surprised that you closed this so rapidly. I've installed various other releases of Red Hat and other Linux distributions in VMWare virtual machines without any problems. From what I've seen the network driver only fails in severn. Aren't you even planning to look into this? Well, there's my usual "please try booting with acpi=off" but I doubt it applies here. We do not regularly test vmware installs that I'm aware of and we don't list it as a supported platform, though we don't intentionally make it non-functional either... If the real hardware works (and I don't think I've seen bug reports for pcnet32 on real hardware, and we know it is rather a popular piece of hardware) it's hard to consider this a kernel bug. |