anyone else having weird networking issues with the latest FC5 (2.6.17) kernel?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> I'm seeing some bizarre networking problems with the latest FC5
> kernel.  On one system, all of my ethernet interfaces have reversed
> themselves.  eth2 is now eth0, eth0 is eth2.  If I boot back into the
> last 2.6.16 based kernel, everything 'works' as expected again.

Install the latest initscripts RPM (*still* only in updates-testing three 
months after release 8^( ).

>
> On another system, where I'm using ndiswrapper-1.18 for a PCI wifi
> NIC, it just doens't work at all in the 2.6.17 kernel.  I see tons of
> messages in dmesg about wlan0 getting reset, and there's no throughput
> at all (100% packet loss).  Falling back to the last 2.6.16 kernel
> fixed that problem too.
>
>

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