[ltp] Ethernet oddness

[Richard Neill]

Richard Neill wrote:

>> Dear All,
>>
>> This is weird. My (previously working) ethernet port on the laptop 
>> keeps dropping out.
> 
> Even weirder: I can replicate the problem under Knoppix as well as 
> Mandrake. But when I try an old version of Knoppix, (with a 2.4 kernel 
> instead of 2.6), the problem goes away. [At least, it has been pinging 
> for an hour so far]
> 
> Any ideas? I'm rather puzzled!

Could this actually be a kernel bug?

I'd assumed a network problem, or broken hardware, or just incompetence 
on my part. But....

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150220
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/11/msg00264.html

If so (and the tests so far bear this out), then the eepro100 module 
worked under 2.4, but is partly borked under 2.6.

Can anyone else confirm this? The solution seems to be to load the e100 
module instead.

Richard