From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The RedHat startup-script says it initializes eth0 fine but this is NOT true. The driver/module for the DEC 21040 / Tulip network adapter is BROKEN on RedHat 7.1. The card looses the connection to the hub/switch when it's initialized by the start-up script. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot with the 21040 adapter in the machine 2.Do ifdown eth0 to down the network adapter 3.Do ifup eth0 and it fails to load the module. Actual Results: Nothing - which is the problem ;) My network adapter still doesn't work. Expected Results: The module should have loaded and networking worked. Additional info: It's pretty bad that anaconda / the installer finds and configures the network adapter at installation time, but the card doesn't work.
This is related to drivers, changing to kernel component. This might also be a local configuration issue; check: 1) dmesg output when loading the driver 2) whether your switch is using autonegotiation (probably yes); if not, you need to tune /etc/modules.conf 3) 'lspci' output; which driver is used? 4) 'mii-tool -v'.
Also, does the de4x5 driver work instead of the tulip driver work ?
Closed: Inactive