Problem moving from Redhat 7.1 to RedHat 8.0

I manage 2 groups of machines (as well as others) that are giving me 
horrendous problems trying to put RedHat 8.0 on them. They are 
old Viglen machines. One group are Genie2 and the others are 
Contender2's. They contain 'Boomerang' and 'Cyclone' ethernet cards.

I have left one machine at 7.1 and it still works fine, The other 30 
machines have all had RedHat 8.0 installed on them and at first all 
seemed to be working fine but now I notice that they all lose their 
connections to the network after about 5 to 10 minutes after a 
reboot.

It could be that in some cases the network card has just gone flakey, 
but it would seem a hell of a coincidence if 30 went at once and the 
one that I left in a 7.1 machine is still ok!!

Some machines are producing this:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
  diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 00000000.
  Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 17(1)
  Transmit list 00000000 vs. c2462240.
  0: @c2462200  length 80000092 status 80000092
  1: @c2462240  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  2: @c2462280  length 80000092 status 00000092
  3: @c24622c0  length 80000092 status 00000092
  4: @c2462300  length 80000092 status 00000092
  5: @c2462340  length 80000092 status 00000092
  6: @c2462380  length 80000092 status 00000092
  7: @c24623c0  length 80000092 status 00000092
  8: @c2462400  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  9: @c2462440  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  10: @c2462480  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  11: @c24624c0  length 800000c6 status 000000c6
  12: @c2462500  length 80000092 status 00000092
  13: @c2462540  length 80000092 status 00000092
  14: @c2462580  length 80000092 status 00000092
  15: @c24625c0  length 80000092 status 80000092
eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 90.
  Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 17(1)
  Transmit list 02462280 vs. c2462240.
  0: @c2462200  length 80000092 status 80000092
  1: @c2462240  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  2: @c2462280  length 80000092 status 00000092
  3: @c24622c0  length 80000092 status 00000092
  4: @c2462300  length 80000092 status 00000092
  5: @c2462340  length 80000092 status 00000092
  6: @c2462380  length 80000092 status 00000092
  7: @c24623c0  length 80000092 status 00000092
  8: @c2462400  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  9: @c2462440  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  10: @c2462480  length 8000002a status 0000002a
  11: @c24624c0  length 800000c6 status 000000c6
  12: @c2462500  length 80000092 status 00000092
  13: @c2462540  length 80000092 status 00000092
  14: @c2462580  length 80000092 status 00000092
  15: @c24625c0  length 80000092 status 80000092

I have only seen this on about half a dozen machines but I would be 
interested to know if this meant that they should go in the bin (or 
not). The trouble here of course is that I can't easily check the 30 
machines. So, does this indicate a hardware error?

Anyway thanks in advance to anyone who can offer advice, either about 
the message above, or in general about problems with the 3c59x module 
in RedHat8.0. 
I did try recompiling the 7.1 3c59x.c file under 8.0 but it still 
didn't work.
I also tried updating the BIOS but also no joy.
Also my kernel is 2.4.20-20.8.

Cheers,

Ross

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Ross Macintyre
Heriot-Watt University
[email protected]

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