From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-7 i686) After upgrade of RH6.2 to RH7.1 the starfire module for the Adaptec Duralan Ethernet card gives an endless error message: Something Wicked happened! 2001 ( the number may vary) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot the system 2. Wait until the first acces to the ethernet controller happens Actual Results: endless error message: Something Wicked happened! 2001 The system can be started from lilo prompt with: linux 2 and modeprobe -r starfire modeprobe -a starfire init 5 afterwards. Expected Results: Normal bootsequence until Graphical login screen. Operating System / Hardware (HP Visualize PL class): Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on a i686 vendor_id = GenuineIntel model name = Pentium III (Coppermine) cpu MHz = 797.515 cache size = 256 KB bogomips = 1592.52 PCI devices: Host bridge ServerWorks CNB20HE (rev 34). PCI bridge ServerWorks CNB20LE (rev 1). Host bridge PCI device 1166 Host bridge PCI device 1166 Ethernet controller Adaptec ANA620xx/ANA69011A (rev 3). Ethernet controller Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8). Multimedia audio controller Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 1). ISA bridge ServerWorks OSB4 (rev 80). IDE interface PCI device 1166 USB Controller PCI device 1166 VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation Riva TnT2 [NV5] (rev 17). SCSI storage controller Adaptec 7892A (rev 2). SCSI devices: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY092L Rev: DA40 IDE devices: FX4820T Extract from the message file: Apr 23 10:26:46 avena kernel: starfire.c:v1.03 7/26/2000 Written by Donald Becker <becker> Apr 23 10:26:46 avena kernel: Updates and info at http://www.scyld.com/network/starfire.html Apr 23 10:26:46 avena kernel: (unofficial 2.4.x kernel port, version 1.2.6, February 22, 2001) Apr 23 10:26:46 avena kernel: eth1: Adaptec Starfire 6915 at 0xd0908000, 00:00:d1:6a:f7:ef, IRQ 11. Apr 23 10:26:46 avena kernel: eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
Is this still a problem with current starfire modules in the errata ?