After ECN check, You should check OSA microcode level also . Must be
OSA-Express QDIO
zSeries 900 GA3
Driver 3G, OSA microcode level 3.0A
MCLs: J11204.007 and J11204.008 (available May 03, 2002)
zSeries 900 GA2
Driver 3C, OSA microcode level: 2.26
MCLs: J10630.013 and J10630.014 (available May 20, 2002)
zSeries 800 GA1
Driver 3G, OSA microcode level 3.0A
MCLs: J11204.007 and J11204.008 (available May 03, 2002)
S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers G5 and G6
Driver 26, OSA microcode level: 4.25
MCLs: F99904.032 and F99904.033 (available May 16, 2002)
I've had some strange behaviour with lower microcode version and SLES8,
but in the same time SLES7 has worked fine.
WBR, Sergey