Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 861
Intel Etherexpress 100(B?) seems to be broken in kernel-2.0.36-3
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:48 EDT
I am using 4 IBM Intellistations with Redhat 5.2. All were working fine. When I installed the kernel-2.0.36-3.i386.rpm package (from your updates ftp site), the new kernel slotted in just fine. However, upon reboot, no ethernet card was seen. (localhost login: ) To verify it was not a hardware problem, I promptly booted the install disks, and the installation dialogues told me that I had an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (which I do). I again tried to boot the 2.0.36-3 kernel from my hard disk, and again, no network. Unfortunately, I didn't opt to install mtools, so I don't even know how to copy the 2.0.36-0.7 kernel from an other machine to this one. I will probably end up re-installing the entire system tonight, but wanted to let you know because others are probably having this problem. Regards, Albert. P.S. Its possible that I might have the 100B which you list as "unsupported but compatable." I'm really not sure if these machines come with the standard Pro/100 or Pro/100B.... even if it is the B, it would be nice for you to go up to a higher kernel where ieep/100 support is fixed...
I attempted to replicate this problem in our test lab with an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 PCI and was unable to get it to fail. I started with a fresh install of 5.2 as shipped on CD. I then uograded to the new 2.0.36-3 update RPM, edited lilo.conf to point to the new kernel, re-ran lilo to enable the new setting, and then rebooted. The Intel card was recognized and networking set up fine.