I am unable to get Mandrake 10.0 to boot successfully with the enterprise kernel, unless I disable the onboard gigabit NIC on my Intel motherboard. Enabled, the kernel hangs during boot bringing up eth0. Same story with the SMP kernel. The "plain vanilla" linux kernel DOES successfully configure and boot with the NIC enabled, so it can apparently be done (which is how I'm posting this now). Unfortunately, this plain kernel has no idea what to make of my P4's hyperthreading (only one virtual CPU listed under /proc/cpuinfo), and sees less than half of my 2 GB of RAM.
I'm just hoping somebody has also seen this behavior and can provide some ideas; if need be, I may have access to a PCI NIC I can try and swap in, but I'm hoping that won't be necessary. System details:
3.0 GHz P4
Intel D875PBZLK mobo
2 GB DDR400 memory
MSI GF4 MX440 video
SB Live 5.1 audio
Liteon burner/DVD ROM drives
NB: This same system had been running fine for months under MDK 9.1, only requiring a manual build and install of the NIC driver from a tarball on Intel's website. I already checked, there's nothing there for the 2.6 kernel, unfortunately.