I have changed the 3c59x.c to version 0.40 and Rocketport is using driver
v. 1.12 as a module. I also added the patch (Linux_2_0_30_MasqFixes1.gz)
for Mtransparent proxying, though it didn't work.
Below included everything (IMHO) related from logfiles and .config.
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<0014f8b2>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: eax: 6e6f6349 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 08b29c0c
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: esi: 0b998d80 edi: 00000001 ebp: 09be97e0 esp: 00d51e38
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Process smbd (pid: 4430, process nr: 18, stackpage=00d51000)
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Stack: 00000001 00135c49 09be986c 00000001 00000000 00135c24 0012c196 09be97e0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: 0b998d80 00000001 00000000 00000005 0b998d80 00000000 00000000 00000000
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: 0012c2e5 00000001 00000000 0b998d80 000000ff 00000000 bffff8d0 bffff908
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Call Trace: [<00135c49>] [<00135c24>] [<0012c196>] [<0012c2e5>] [<0012c5df>] [<001106cb>] [<0010a5e2>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Code: 8b 40 2c 85 c0 74 0b 51 53 52 ff d0 83 c4 0c 5b c3 90 31 c0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<0014f118>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: eax: 6e6f6349 ebx: 08b29c0c ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: esi: 09be986c edi: 09be986c ebp: 00000003 esp: 00d51d34
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Process smbd (pid: 4430, process nr: 18, stackpage=00d51000)
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Stack: 08b29c0c 00000000 09be97e0 00000000 00135a40 09be986c 00000000 09be97e0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: 09be97e0 09be97e0 00c4a018 00135c79 09be986c 0b998d80 00122000 09be97e0
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: 0b998d80 00000000 0b998d80 00122070 0b998d80 09be97e0 00000001 00000005
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Call Trace: [<00135a40>] [<00135c79>] [<00122000>] [<00122070>] [<001166a2>] [<0010ab82>] [<11000000>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: [<10800000>] [<0010af98>] [<0010af70>] [<0010a76d>] [<0014f8b2>] [<00135c49>] [<00135c24>] [<0012c196>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: [<0012c2e5>] [<0012c5df>] [<001106cb>] [<0010a5e2>]
May 5 16:15:24 jymy kernel: Code: 8b 40 08 ff d0 83 c4 08 31 c0 5b 5e c3 8d 76 00 57 56 53 8b
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00147988>]
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: eax: 72617420 ebx: 00000404 ecx: b224d3c2 edx: b224d7c6
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: esi: 0f103730 edi: 0000008b ebp: 0f10375c esp: 001a0d38
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=0019ee9c)
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: Stack: 001a44bc 0f10375c 0f10371c 00000000 001a5138 00000002 0f119810 0f10371c
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: 001a0014 0013fc4f 0f10375c 0f119810 00000000 a124d3c2 00000014 b224d3c2
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: 00000000 001a44bc 00000000 0f10375c 001a4678 001b0008 0f10375c 001b0400
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: Call Trace: [<0013fc4f>] [<00138df8>] [<00117807>] [<0010a56b>] [<00109634>] [<0010a5e2>] [<00109328>]
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: [<00180018>] [<001091b5>]
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: Code: 39 88 d0 00 00 00 75 1e 66 39 98 76 01 00 00 75 15 66 39 b8
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001a0ee4, next= 00000000, order=0
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001a0ed4, next= 00000000, order=0
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001a13e8, next= 00000000, order=0
May 5 16:15:26 jymy kernel: idle task may not sleep
May 5 16:15:26 jymy last message repeated 4 times
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00147988>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: eax: 72617420 ebx: 00000404 ecx: b724d3c2 edx: b724d7c6
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: esi: 0ff25148 edi: 0000008b ebp: 0ff25174 esp: 0009be74
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Process init (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=0009b000)
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Stack: 001a44bc 0ff25174 0ff25134 00000000 001a5138 00000002 0f119810 0ff25134
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: 00090014 0013fc4f 0ff25174 0f119810 00000000 a124d3c2 00000014 b724d3c2
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: 00000000 001a44bc 00000000 0ff25174 001a4678 001b0008 0ff25174 001b0400
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Call Trace: [<0013fc4f>] [<00138df8>] [<00117807>] [<0010a56b>] [<00123f38>] [<00124006>] [<00124013>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: [<0010a5e2>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Code: 39 88 d0 00 00 00 75 1e 66 39 98 76 01 00 00 75 15 66 39 b8
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00147988>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: eax: 72617420 ebx: 00000404 ecx: b224d3c2 edx: b224d7c6
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: esi: 0f10304c edi: 0000008b ebp: 0f103078 esp: 001a0ba4
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0000 ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=0019ee9c)
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Stack: 001a44bc 0f103078 0f103038 00000000 001a5138 00000002 0f119810 0f103038
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: 001a0014 0013fc4f 0f103078 0f119810 00000000 a124d3c2 00000014 b224d3c2
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: 00000000 001a44bc 00000000 0f103078 001a4678 001b0008 0f103078 001b87a4
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Call Trace: [<0013fc4f>] [<00138df8>] [<00117807>] [<0010a56b>] [<001163d2>] [<00116748>] [<0010ab82>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: [<11000000>] [<10800000>] [<0010af98>] [<0010af70>] [<0010a76d>] [<00147988>] [<0013fc4f>] [<00138df8>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: [<00117807>] [<0010a56b>] [<00109634>] [<0010a5e2>] [<00109328>] [<00180018>] [<001091b5>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Code: 39 88 d0 00 00 00 75 1e 66 39 98 76 01 00 00 75 15 66 39 b8
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: general protection: 0000
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: CPU: 0
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00147988>]
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: eax: 72617420 ebx: 00000404 ecx: b724d3c2 edx: b724d7c6
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: esi: 0ff25538 edi: 0000008b ebp: 0ff25564 esp: 001a0a10
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0000 ss: 0018
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=0019ee9c)
May 5 16:15:27 jymy kernel: Stack: 001a44bc 0ff25564 0ff25524 00000000 001a5138 00000002 0f119810 0ff25524
#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#
#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M686=y
#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE is not set
CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
# CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=y
CONFIG_SCSI_OMIT_FLASHPOINT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
# CONFIG_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
# CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_EL16 is not set
# CONFIG_EL3 is not set
CONFIG_VORTEX=m
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set
#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
#
# Filesystems
#
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
# CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
# CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set
#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set