From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718 Description of problem: when the module eepro100 is loaded at boot time it displays an error message such as "unidentified symbol" (sorry I don't have more details in my logfiles) and refuse to load. Obviously the connection to the netwrok This happens systematically for the kernel-2.4.20-19.8 and kernel-2.4.20-19.8. in the previous kernel, kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 eepro100 works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-19.8 and kernel-2.4.20-19.8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot on kernel-2.4.20-19.8 or kernel-2.4.20-19.8 2.load module (if not done automatically) insmod eepro100 3. Actual Results: error messages no network connection eth0 not working Expected Results: a network connection Additional info: can't connect my network without it....
Can you try e100 driver instead?
e100 does not work either in those 2 kernels (works fine in the previous one)
Can you provide 'lspci -vvv' and 'dmesg' output?
End of lifed, and in NEEDINFO far too long..