> Do you mind working (somewhat slowly on this- I'll mail you when I have a
> test kernel ready- it won't be for a couple of days) with me on this?
> Obviously if I could reproduce this in my set of Alpha's this would have
> been tackled by now. There are periodic cases of things like this
> happening, but not in my set of things.
> 

I don't mind. I think we both want this to work. When you build
the new kernel, just make sure it has Alteon Acenic support,
since I want that one to work too. 

Sven