From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-7 i686) Description of problem: Red Hat Linux try turn on the eth0 at boot !!! --dmesg at boot eepro_init_module: Probe is very dangerous in ISA boards! eepro_init_module: Please add "autodetect=1" to force probe --end but at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ONBOOT=no then I configure the eth0: # ifconfig eth0 open a ncftp session and get a file at 1.10 Mb/s but then the ratio down at 15k/s Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. ifconfig eth0 3. ifdown eth0 Additional info: Adapter ISA Intel PRO/10+ 82595FX Options with SoftSet2 V4.10 I/O Address 300 - 30Fh Interrupt IRQ 10 Board Connector type Auto-detect Force 8-bit operation No Flash chip addres Disable Remote boot program None Concurrent processing Enabled Plug and Play Disabled Duplex Mode Auto-Negotiate Power Management Disabled ------------------------------------------------------ Red Hat 7.2 kernel-2.4.9-13.i586.rpm plus all upgrades --/etc/modules.conf options eth0 io=0x300 irq=10 alias eth0 eepro --end
the solution here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.13/notes.2413 2.4.13-ac7 ..... o Fix performance and misdetect problems in (Chris) eepro driver ....
the new driver is here: http://cathedrallabs.org/~aris/patches