The problem indeed ended up being acpi. Adding acpi=off in the grub menu brought my NIC back to life. Jostein, Dep, Lenz (Wow, this is a name I have not seen for a long while, hi Lenz!), Christopher and anyone else I may have missed, thank you very much for your help. As for SuSE: you have a great product, don't destroy it with poor support. From the replies I received it seems that setting ACPI on by default causes a lot of problems for many people. It should be pretty easy to add the acpi=off hint to the canned email you send out to the help requests. Avi On Monday, Apr 28, 2003, at 16:11 America/Chicago, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
On 28.04.03,13:46, Avi Schwartz wrote:
The laptop (an IBM Thinkpad A21p with a built-in mini-pci 3com 3C556B) worked fine with previous versions of SuSE, using the same driver. It also works fine with Gentoo Linux. Luckily, I have two HDs, the other one on which Gentoo is installed, so at least I was not out of commission, but I am not sure how to proceed from here.
Try to boot with acpi=off, and turn off wake-on lan for the card. You can also do a Google for this:
eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! status=0xffff
You might find some more clues there.
-- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com