Hi. Sorry about the length of this, but I would rather give too much info than too little.
I've been using Sarge for about a year with no problems at all. However, when playing with Ubuntu (very smart) I found that my Thinkpad T20 wouldn't get a network connection. The network card is 3Com 3c556B I initially thought that this was an Ubuntu compile problem, but (thankfully) I was wrong (again!). The correct module is loaded (3c59x) but I then get lots of error messages regarding commands not completing: ** BEGIN kernel: eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff kernel: eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete! Status=0xffff kernel: eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff ** END then, approximately every 10 seconds I get the following sequence: ** BEGIN kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff status ffff. kernel: � diagnostics: net ffff media ffff dma ffffffff fifo ffff kernel: eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem? kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? kernel: � Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 0(0) current 16(0) kernel: � Transmit list ffffffff vs. cf59a200. kernel: eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff kernel: � 0: cf59a200 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 1: cf59a2a0 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 2: cf59a340 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 3: cf59a3e0 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 4: cf59a480 �length 80000048 status 0c000048 kernel: � 5: cf59a520 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 6: cf59a5c0 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 7: cf59a660 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 8: cf59a700 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 9: cf59a7a0 �length 80000048 status 0c000048 kernel: � 10: cf59a840 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 11: cf59a8e0 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 12: cf59a980 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 13: cf59aa20 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: � 14: cf59aac0 �length 80000048 status 0c000048 kernel: � 15: cf59ab60 �length 8000002a status 0000002a kernel: eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. ** END As a result of this, I obviously have no network. (An aside, I have no floppy drive either, so I have no means of copying the log so I may have mis-typed the above, despite having checked it many times.) If I use the Sarge installer, I get a network with no problems at all. But upon reboot (with the 2.6.8-1 kernel) these problems occur. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, TreeBoy
