On Thursdayen den 24 January 2002 04.08, Salane wrote:
> Sorry folks Must have been my dhcp provider caught my wife away from
> computer so I could try it. It is working now.
>
> nope. I even tried to reconfigure using mcc couldn't get it to come up
> as soon as I restarted up 17.5 I had ethernet. Tomorrow I can reboot again
>  and retry it. Can't tonight my wife would shoot me for disconecting
> shareing to her computer.
>
> On Thursdayen den 24 January 2002 01.43, Salane wrote:
> > no ethernet connection when I boot with 17.8 when I return to 17.5 it
> > works.
> >
> > On Wednesdayen den 23 January 2002 02.16, Salane wrote:
> > > This kernel seems to have broken 8139too ethernet driver
> >
> > ?, I don't experience any problems..., in what way are they broken?
> >
> > [root@oden oden]# uname -a
> > Linux oden.local.net 2.4.17-8mdksmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 22 14:59:05 CET 2002
> > i686 unknown
> >
> > [root@oden oden]# lsmod|grep 8139
> > 8139too                14624   2  (autoclean)
> > mii                     1424   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
> >
> > > --=-=-=
> > > Name        : kernel-2.4.17.8mdk           Relocations: (not
> > > relocateable) Version     : 1                                 Vendor:
> > > MandrakeSoft Release     : 1mdk                          Build Date:
> > > Tue Jan 22 18:04:20
>
> Hmm..., any software, configure and/or compile changes that could cause
> this?

Well..., this is tricky. I don't really know what else to do than to check 
what differs between those two kernels (in the source), documentation, etc.

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