Just to add another data point...
I recently started using the 2.4.9-12 kernel on a Dell 2450 with an
Intel e1000 gig-ethernet card running RedHat Linux 7.1.
The SGI-built kernels work.
The RedHat-built kernels work.
When I built my own kernels, the module would load,
the card would get ifconfig'd up, etc. Couldn't pass traffic.
Verified by connecting two identical machines with identical
kernels via fibre, which is to say I don't know if traffic went in
but not out, out but not in, or neither.
Same kernel works just fine on a Dell 6450 with the same
e1000 card.
I switched CC from kgcc to gcc-2.96-85, made no other
changes, and it now works great.
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