From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 Description of problem: Immediatly i configure network settings in network install, and after installer loads ext3 and lvm modules, instalation hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a box with D845WN motherboard 2.attempt a network NFS install with onboard nic with bootnet.img floppy 3.observe consoles on F3 and F4 Actual Results: I've started to get a lot of eepro100_wait_for_cmd_done! timeouts and instalation stopped. Expected Results: This wait_for_cmd_done problem is really a long standing one ... almost every new kind of intel network card gets hit by it, untill the eepro100 driver is adopted to it. Additional info: I found intel's e100 driver much more reliable in various situations ... Would you mind putting a choice between eepro100 and e100 on the install floppy?
This appears to be a kernel issue.
Some clarification: the box was connected to the 3COM FMS TP HUB (3c16271) when this happend. Plugging it into cisco catalyst 2916 worked perfectly OK. So i assume there must be something wrong at the link negotiation or the eepro100 driver doesnt really like talking to this particular hub.
I have a similar problem. My motherboard is an Intel D845BG with an integrated LAN device using an 82562ET controller. I installed the system using CDs, so the installation went well and the system ran fine until the phone company installed an ADSL hub. After the introduction of a network, the system started locking up at random times when I was using the network (SSH client, Mozilla). In this case, lockup = no keyboard or mouse response, only the reset button would work. Last night I switched to the e100 driver and the system hasn't encountered any problems so far.
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