From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041215 Firefox/1.0 Red Hat/1.0-12.EL4 Description of problem: I have a customer who was quite upset because some documentation in the /usr/src/linux gave outdated instructions on how to set the module options for e100 nics in RHEL 3. Essentially, the instructions said to add an options line to modules.conf. However, the options we're removed at some point and the correct method for doing this is to use ETHTOOL. The correct procedure IS in the release notes. Offending Documentation: /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.EL/Documentation/networking/e100.txt: e100_speed_duplex Valid Range: 0-4 (1=10half;2=10full;3=100half;4=100full) Default Value: 0 The default value of 0 sets the adapter to auto-negotiate. Other values set the adapter to forced speed and duplex. Example usage: insmod e100.o e100_speed_duplex=4,4 (for two adapters) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-32.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.EL/Documentation/networking/e100.txt 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 117405 [details] jwltest-e100-doc.patch I apologize for the confusion...
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.2.EL).
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html