Craig, I have found that SuSE sometimes picks the wrong drivers, and kernel. I have an A30, and I had trouble installing 8.0 on it. I figured out that the system was trying to install an SMP kernel, with only one CPU. Needless to say, I went with the standard kernel, and everything was fine. I would recommend that you find what driver Red Hat loads, and if there are any options to it. IBM does support SuSE Linux, so there should be no problem. My A30 has the Intel, but it is detected as an IBM in some versions of SuSE. You may be encountering the same issue. A manual force to the proper card, in YaST2 on eth0 may work fine. Don Craig McLean wrote:
Hello all.
I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad A21p with a built in 3com MiniPCI ethernet modem combo card. I'm aware of the problems with the modem on this card, however I'm also having a problem with the ethernet portion of the card. SUSE 8.1 fails to properly initialize this card. It detects the card but then puts a message in the log that says
eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff
If you do an ifconfig eth0 shows up, however the hardware address is all f. Googling for this problem produced a variety of inconclusive results related to power managment. When I install RedHat 8.0 the card works fine. Also I used to have a Dell Inspiron 2500 that also had a 3com MiniPCI combo card in it and Suse 8.1 worked fine on it.
Im wondering if anybody can suggest any config changes I can make to get this going. I searched the SUSE list archives and I found one other person who was having the same problem, only on different hardware and with a different kernel. I'll link it here
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/0157.html
I'm using a stock out of the box SUSE 8.1, I've experimented and found that out of the box or updated with all of the latest SUSE patches there is no change. The IBM laptop is a Thinkpad A21p Machine type 2629-HWU.
Does anybody know how to fix this?