Problems on Lenovo R61

I recently received a new Lenovo R61 laptop at work. I decided to install Debian Lenny on it. I have mainly two problems which I cannot solve using Debian kernels:

1. The Debian kernels have a bug in the ata_piix module which causes the R61 to complain about the cdromdrive. This was solved by recompiling the Debian kernel using the vanilla kernel's ata_piix.c code.
2. On all the kernels I have tried (Debian's 2.6.24.7 and 2.6.25.2, Ubuntu 2.6.24.3 as well as the vanilla 2.6.25.3) I had problems with the network card: intermittend network connection on the wired NIC ( Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)).

   From time to time my network connection just dies and I have to    restart network-manager or /etc/init.d/networking again.

Any idea how to fix problem number 2?

Regards
Johann

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Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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      word of truth."              II Timothy 2:15 

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