Hello, As mentioned in the subject, the kernel doesn't work with a 3Com 3c905 card. Here's what's shown on the screen and in the logs on both startup and in intervals during normal system run: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601. diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 0000003b fifo 0000 eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 240(0) current 240(0) Transmit list 00000000 vs. efce2200. 0: @efce2200 length 8000002a status 0000002a 1: @efce22a0 length 80000050 status 00000050 2: @efce2340 length 8000002a status 0000002a 3: @efce23e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a 4: @efce2480 length 8000002a status 0000002a 5: @efce2520 length 80000036 status 00000036 6: @efce25c0 length 80000036 status 00000036 7: @efce2660 length 80000036 status 00000036 8: @efce2700 length 80000050 status 00000050 9: @efce27a0 length 80000050 status 00000050 10: @efce2840 length 80000050 status 00000050 11: @efce28e0 length 80000050 status 00000050 12: @efce2980 length 80000050 status 00000050 13: @efce2a20 length 80000050 status 00000050 14: @efce2ac0 length 80000050 status 80000050 15: @efce2b60 length 80000050 status 80000050 eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. All the earlier -mm kernels worked fine in this regard, marek