RH kernel update

[Net Llama!]

On 07/01/03 18:58, David A. Bandel wrote:

> OK, I need someone more familiar w/ Red Crap to give me a clue on this

Ahhh..insult my preferred distro, and then ask for help with it, that's 
a good tactic.  ;)

> one.  This is 7.3 running kernel 2.4.18-3.
> 
> Needed to replace the kernel and iptables (2.4.18 lacks htb3 support and
> ip_nat_h323/ip_conntrack_h323 among other things, such as xfs).
> 
> Anyway, d/l, patched, installed new kernel.
> 
> First bug:  /etc/fstab looked bizarre (weirdness with LABEL=/ nonsense).
>  Fixed it and boot proceeded fine.
> 
> Current bug:  I have 3 interfaces: 3c59x, 8139too, dmfe.  Under 2.4.18-3
> they come up fine.  Under 2.4.21-xfs dmfe causes a large number of TX
> reset errors.  I've used these same interface cards with 2.4.21 on other
> systems with no problems.  So there must be some kind of tomfoolery
> going on with interface configurations under Red Crap.
> 
> The same modules load, things look the same, except dmfe doesn't work
> and gives continuous errors.

What are the exact error?  I'm using 8139too under 2.4.21-pre2-xfs on 
RH9 without any problems.

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