My apologies if I am not doing this right. 

When I restart my machine during woody instalation,
eth0 would not start up. I am trying to install woody
from 'floppies' which I have copied to a hard drive
partition and I am booting into it from grub.
Instalation would go fine. I would use natsemi module
for my ethernet card and that would work fine during
instalation. Last step I wold do is to skip seting up
boot options since I already have grub installed. When
machine would re-boot into 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, I
would get a following error message:

eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec.

and of course I would not be conected to network


This is a re-ocuring problem that I would get when
ever I used any linux distribution with 2.4 kernel,
and I would eventualy solve it by recompiling the
kernel with diffrent options untill ethernet works. I
have .config file of working setup somwhere but I
cannot acces it since my linux machine is not running
and I am forced to use my girlfriends widows machine.
I cannot recompile the kernel since I cannot download
source, and I cannot download source since I am unable
to fix ethernet by recompiling the kernel. 

I am ataching dmesg output, kurent faulty kernel
config file and /etc/modules file

I am runing 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and libc-2.2.5.so