On Tuesday 25 November 2003 18:36, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jim Cornette (redhat-jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > What major breakthroughs were introduced between RHL9 and the first Beta > > for Fedora that deal with connectivity through the ethernet port? > > We keep better track of ethernet devices by tying physical PCI cards > to their hardware address; this is done with ethtool. Apparently > something in kudzu's quick 'load module; query with ethtool ; query > for hardware address' cycle on 3c59x makes the driver/card very > upset. It's not clear at all *why* this is happening, though. I have a system with a 3C905B NIC and FC1 installed and have seen no problems. This may be a problem with only some of the 3C905s. -- Gene
