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. In wondering if anybody can suggest any config changes I can make to get this going.
