Network doesn't work with acpi enabled

[Nate Lawson]

Samuel Moñux wrote:
> I have recently installed 5.3-Beta7 on a box with a Jetway
> motherboard. When acpi is enabled, network doesn't work and console
> output shows this message
> xl0: watchdog timeout
> 
> When its disabled, it seems to work fine. This box was running
> 5.1-Release some time ago without problems.
> 
> I don't know anything about ACPI so I hardly can do anything to fix
> it. Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> (This could be the same problem that is reported as i386/72215)
> 
> -- dmesg output (ACPI enabled):
>
> acpi0: <JETWAY AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)

Ok, it's getting bad -- I'm starting to recognize OEM BIOS reference 
code by its behavior.

> xl0: <3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> 0xd9000000-0xd900007f irq 5 at device
> 15.0 on pci0
> xl0: selecting 10baseT transceiver, half duplex
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:db:19:9f

A dmesg from boot -v with acpi disabled and enabled would help.  The irq 
routing stuff is hidden there.

-Nate