With gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r9 my sis900 nic in my laptop works fine, with 2.6.11-r11, when I enable it, I get: eth0: Media Link Off NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000240 eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000249 NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000249 NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000249 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2, 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.2/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdread eds encode esd ethereal exif fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm geoip gif gimpprint gmp gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib jabber java jp2 jpeg lzw lzw-tiff memlimit mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mpi msession msn ncurses nls no-old-linux nodrm nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic png pnp posix ppds pthreads python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl session speex spell ssl sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vim-with-x vorbis wxwindows xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Ok, not sure why, but I recompiled -r9 and got the same errors. Closing as I can't figure out what's wrong, not sure if it's hardware or not at this point.