Samba and Fedora Core 1

[Gene C.]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 18:36, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jim Cornette (redhat-jc at insight.rr.com) 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