From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: The 0.9.15 driver as included in the updated 2.4.9 kernel doesn't work with this card. It works fine with 0.9.14 as used in RedHat kernels 2.4.2 and 2.4.3. Nov 3 10:35:43 mx0 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Nov 3 10:35:43 mx0 kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status f0660000, SIA 000000c6 ffff0000 fffbff7f 8ff0c008, resetting... Nov 3 10:35:43 mx0 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, switching to 100baseTx-FDX media. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install later kernel with this card Accton 1207C 2. You won't get a packet out. 3. Actual Results: No network access Expected Results: Network should work Additional info: Sourceforge lists 0.9.14 http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/ as the latest stable version but it appears that 0.9.15 was included in the kernel sources at about 2.4.5. Search for tulip 0.9.15 on Google and you'll see this isn't the only card having this problem. We've verified this on two systems both 7.1 upgraded to latest 2.4.9 RH kernel. One is an old Pentium the other is a Dual PIII L440GX based system. Additionally this card always had detection problems. With the older driver we specify append="ether=0,0,5,eth0" in lilo.conf to make it 100FD so part of the problem may be the card but that doesn't help much.
Please try the "tulip_old" driver; it's the 0.9.14 driver....
Looks like it works fine. (As expected really as it's the driver that worked. ) Sorry I should have noticed you had left the old driver in the source tree. If I had I wouldn't have raised the bugzilla entry. I guess we'll just have to remember to update modules.conf after updating the kernel. Thanks for your prompt response.
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/