From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) Description of problem: System: Panasonic CF-30 Ethernet Device: Marvell 88E8055 Gigabit Ethernet Controller The default 2.4.21-49.EL kernel does not include the sk98lin driver module though the /boot/config-2.4.21-49.EL file indicated that the driver should be there. After rebuilding the kernel using /boot/config-2.4.21-49.EL as my config file and verifying that the module was indeed now present on the system, the ethernet interface is not recognized. I previously patched the 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL version of the kernel using Marvell's 10.0.5.3 driver and it has been working fairly well but we have seen some intermittent network errors. I have also tested RHEL4U5, which has an updated sky2 driver, on this platform and the network interface operates properly, unfortunately due to contractual obligations I will have to support RHEL3 on the Panasonic CF-30 for at least a year. Is there any possibility that RedHat will begin supporting these controllers in RHEL3? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-49.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL3 on the system. 2. Update to the latest kernel. Actual Results: The ethernet interface is inoperative. Expected Results: The ethernet interface should function. Additional info:
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