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Description of problem:
kudzu's hardware detection seems to disturb old vortex nics. such a
nic (3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]) is unable to
transmit anything after kudzu ran:

kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.
kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 1(1)
kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. d0463240.
kernel:   0: @d0463200  length 8000002a status 8000002a
kernel:   1: @d0463240  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   2: @d0463280  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   3: @d04632c0  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   4: @d0463300  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   5: @d0463340  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   6: @d0463380  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   7: @d04633c0  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   8: @d0463400  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   9: @d0463440  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   10: @d0463480  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   11: @d04634c0  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   12: @d0463500  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   13: @d0463540  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   14: @d0463580  length 00000000 status 00000000
kernel:   15: @d04635c0  length 00000000 status 00000000

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119965

disabling kudzu and rebooting solved the problem.

-ap

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.1.22.4-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put in a old vortex
2. enable kudzu to run at boot
3. reboot
    

Additional info: