[ltp] Thinkpad A21P Ethernet

[Bill Hudacek]

I am not advancing any hypothesis here, only reporting direct experience.

I upgraded my a21p from Mandrake 9.1 to 10.0 official, and with the very 
next reboot, the built-in 3com min-PCI network card was toast.

Long pauses, kernel messages, the device was there but communication was 
not possible.  Bad news.

It could be coincidence, but I've heard before of operating systems that 
have trashed the firmware in cd-rom drives, cd-rw drives, even motherboard 
CMOS/BIOS areas.  I've never heard of a thinkpad being affected in this 
way, however.  Nonetheless, the latest Mandrake and the latest SuSE no 
doubt share some common elements........

I'm back on mandrake 9.1, and using two PC cards instead of one PC card + 
the built-in interface...because when I booted back into 9.1 the built-in 
interface was still "OTL".  I ripped it out of the box, as it was still 
recognized on the bus :-(

F.Y.I.  I don't know if it'll help you or anyone else...as for me, it's 
time to try Fedora core 2...

Regards,

Bill Hudacek
IBM Global Services

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My Thinkpad A21 has a 3COM  10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet Adapter.
With Suse 8.1  the Ethernet worked, if I have set an option with booting,
I do not know any more what it was (acpi=off? apm=off and same else).
Now I have installed Suse 9.1 I can  not run my ethernet adapter.
Does anyone know what to do ?
Thank
Klaus

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