-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gianni Bragante wrote: > I have a Fedora C1 box that was working correctly from several months. > Yesterday I have rebooted after the upgrade to the new kernel > 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl and only after that reboot I have found this sequence of > errors: > > 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: eth1: Transmit > error, Tx status register 82. > 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: Probably a duplex > mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt > > > The network card is a 3com 3C905TX-B. > I have no idea of how duplex is set harware level but for sure it was never > changed between reboot. > The card is connected to a plain 10Mbps hub so there should be no problem > about auto-negotiation. > > Is that a problem with the new kernel? > What should I do? Switch to the old kernel? > Look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389 To summarize: The workaround is to disable kudzu. At the end of the bugzilla report, there are some parameters to add with the 3c905 driver. They did not work for me. The only way I could get the card to work was to disable kudzu. I ended up buying an Intel Ethernet Pro card, and has worked great right out of the box. You might also look here: http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#3c905 I did not try this, since I don't want to have to compile the driver every time I update the kernel. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFANNoVL6ubqSVs8LERArbMAJ9KFogMAeNJCscPOXu5Iy2aMwHu5ACguDk8 Fi718vFx16NLz5+S9pq1JP8= =XevX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
