RE: NIC on 2.4.19 SMP (mii-diag output)

Paul wrote: 
> Just tried 2.4.20-pre11 and all NIC issues seem to be 
> resolved. Both eepro100 and e100 drivers work correctly.

Just for kicks, go back to 2.4.19.SuSE-SMP, but this time disable ACPI.
(Set acpi=off in the kernel parameters SuSE's bootloader).  Do the nics
work?

We've seen issues on some of these newer systems with multiple IO-APICS
where the interrupts get masked off when ACPI is enabled. 

-scott