Yes. You didnt make clean, and the patch left you an extra suprise
> route forgot to specify route netmask.
> route forgot to specify route netmask.
^^^^^^^^^^ Put netmasks on your route addition
> eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
And that Waiting for Tx RDC looks bad
> # CONFIG_ETH16I is not set
> CONFIG_NE2000=y
However I'd be suprised if I did manage to break the NE2000
I assume you went from make clean ; make depend ; make zImage when building
the new version and the options are the same as always worked before ?
Alan