Ethernet still unreliable in 2944

[Riku Seppälä]

Yep. Now it works after manually updating a lot of different packages, 
dunno what helped. Starting X still hangs the system but atleast I can 
yum update now. :)

Riku

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Riku Seppälä wrote:
>> I'm maybe having different problem, but ethernet does not work for 
>> me. It looks like this bug 
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8090
>> that was supposed to been fixed almost two months ago. 
>
> The patch referenced in kernel bug report 8090 was applied 28 March 
> and is in 2.6.21-rc7.  (It's also in -rc5; I didn't check any kernels 
> earlier than that.)
>
> commit 4db43e677ec2dcfb6129d5e557ed4795f9e4a031
> Merge: 935c631... a9c87a1...
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at woody.linux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Wed Mar 28 13:45:13 2007 -0700
>
>     Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of 
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git
>
>     * 'upstream-linus' of 
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/ne
>       SUN3/3X Lance trivial fix improved
>       mv643xx_eth: Fix use of uninitialized port_num field
>       forcedeth: fix tx timeout
> --->  forcedeth: fix nic poll
>       qla3xxx: bugfix: Jumbo frame handling.
>       qla3xxx: bugfix: Dropping interrupt under heavy network load.
>       qla3xxx: bugfix: Multi segment sends were getting whacked.
>       qla3xxx: bugfix: Add tx control block memset.
>       atl1: remove unnecessary crc inversion
>       myri10ge: correctly detect when TSO should be used
>       [PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit
>       [PATCH] wext: Add missing ioctls to 64<->32 conversion
>       [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix machine check on PPC for version 1 PHY
>       [PATCH] bcm43xx: fix radio_set_tx_iq
>       [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for confusion between PHY revision and 
> PHY versi
>
>