Andrew Morton wrote:

> Please do.  The boot-time messages which come out of the driver
> would be interesting.  It would help if you add `debug=7' to
> the 3c59x modprobe command line also.

OK.  I've included dmesg output due to modprobe with debug=7 followed by ifup
(using pump -- problems persist with static IP as well), cat /proc/interrupts
showing no eth0, and ifconfig eth0.

Please let me know what else I can provide to help out.

--Lee Hetherington