From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-17.7.x i686) Description of problem: I have an Intel PRO/1000 integrated ethernet adapter in a Dell server. The server is plugged into a Linksys 10/100 hub. After a reboot, there is about a 50% chance that the link lights on both ends will stay green and the ethernet will be usable. Half the time, as soon as the e1000 driver is loaded by Linux, the link lights will go out and stay out and the ethernet will fail to come up. Unplugging the ethernet and plugging it back in will sometimes correct the problem, but this is obviously not a solution that can be tolerated on a server. I have tried unloading and reloading the e1000 driver with no success. This is with the stock RH 8.0 kernel. How reproducible: Sometimes
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