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Description of problem: In FC2 with kernel 2.6.8-1.521 the via velocity network card works fine. But every since 2.6.8-1.541 ( this includes the newly 2.6.8-1.582 ) in FC3 test 2 this device driver is totally screwed! You can access the internet for about 5 seconds, and then the card starts sending out tons of packets (from what I see lots of unresolved ARP requests). It's so bad that it takes down my Linksys router. I also can nolonger do a net install because of this issue. I don't see how things regressed but they have. System: Abit AV8 w/ integrated via velocity network card Athlon64 3500+ 1Gig Ram
This is resolved by the following patches from the linux-netdev list http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109505197332355&w=2 hopefully these changes will make it into the next kernel release.
I sent an email to Jeff Garzik to get the patches stated above into the tree. He promptly grabbed them and did it...Jeff is the man! These fixes will be in the 2.6.9 kernel. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109692782318762&w=2 Will FC3 wait for 2.6.9 release?
kernel 2.6.8-1.603 includes the latest 2.6.9 bit keeper patches. The patches to fix this problem where in this and the problem has been resolved.