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Description of problem:
I have been using kernels 2.6.1-1.65 to 2.6.3-1.118 and up2date'd to
2.6.3-2.1.242.

After that there is a failure during boot related to ethx.

There is one nic on the machine, yet it seems like 2.6.3-2.1.242 tries
to initialize two, eth0 and eth1. Network does not work afterwards.

NIC: 3com 3c905c-tx/tx-m

Relevant entries from boot.log:

Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File
exists
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup:
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot parse MAC `2' at argument 2
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup:
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: interface 'eth0' not found
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup:
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot parse MAC `2' at argument 2
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File
exists
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Device eth0 has different MAC address
than expected, ignoring.
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora ifup:
Mar  8 13:52:45 fedora network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot my machine
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Additional info:

Going back to kernel 2.6.3-1.118 restores network