Or at least that's my current theory.. I'm installing deb 2.0 (my first time with debian, I'm keen to switch though, I've been using redhat and slackware) on a thinkpad 560e without a cdrom. The card is a motorola mariner ethernet/modem combo card.
The errors I'm getting are NOT consistant, and in between them I can ping out from the failing laptop, so it's not 100% dead. I've read everything I can find, and I understand that there are some problems with pcmcia and hamm, but I believe my problem is different. I got the base installation up and running, but then things got weird. When I type on the keyboard, I get messages dumped to the screen saying: loading device 'eth0'... if I don't type, the messages don't appear. /var/log/messages shows it loading as well: loading device 'eth0'... eth0: smc91c94: port 0x300, irq 3, 10baseT port, hw_addr 08:00:3E:1B:9E:7F tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A So far so good (and identical to a similar thinkpad running slackware) but less than a minute later the log shows: tty01 unloaded This process, starting with 'loading device' and ending with 'tty01 unloaded' repeats every few minutes (if I'm typing), and about once in 10 times it gives a separate error, like these: eth0: Successful packet caused error interrupt? smc91c92_cs: Yikes! Bad chip signature! (I got anther one about "hardware address" I think, but I've wiped the log since) Any suggestions appreciated!
