Description of problem: When booting into the new 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 kernel on my EM64T box, I cannot make the network work. I cannot connect to servers. When I try to ping the gateway I get nothing. And when I try to nslookup a server I get "cannot allocate memory" errors on the query. Reboot into 2.6.16-1.2096 and I'm able to connect again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 x86_64 How reproducible: every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot into kernel. 2. network services (cups, ntpd, etc..) hang. 3. turn off network services and boot into os and no network connection. Actual results: Can't get a network connection. Expected results: Boot and get on the network. Additional info: System in question: Dell Precision 670N - Dual Xeon EM64T processors, 1 Gig RAM. Intel 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Exactly the same for me on a Sun Fire X4200 and a GigaByte Board with nForce4 Ultra chip set. Both machines are running the x86_64 version on AMD dual core cpus. Network chips are different.