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Debian's (and all other distros') version of kernel 2.6 severely borks on my system. 2.4.x works fine. I am inclined to believe that this is actually a kernel issue, that something that was done in the 2.6 tree has broken backward compatibility with my hardware. I am seriously hoping I'm wrong. Here are the specific issues.
Booting the kernel gives 3 problems:
Firstly, I get repeated dma timeout errors on all my ide devices.
Secondly, I get spammed with messages from the kernel talking about trying to get an IP from the DHCP server, but it never acquires one.
Finally, it attempts to detect my USB stuff, but fails.
Here is the entire lspci -v
Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fb800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at e800 [disabled] [size=4]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: ee000000-ef5fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: ef700000-fb7fffff
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 04)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7M-D Mainboard
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7M-D Mainboard
Flags: medium devsel
0000:00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: ec800000-edffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: ef600000-ef6fffff
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: CardExpert Technology: Unknown device 1603
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at ef800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at ef7e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
0000:02:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. CMI8738 6-channel audio controller
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:02:05.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:02:05.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at c000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:02:05.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID): Unknown device 1234
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 0027
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
Memory at ec800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
And here is the entire dmesg:
Code:
Linux version 2.6.8-1-386 (dilinger@toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-11)) #1 Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffec000 - 000000001ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffef000 - 000000001ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f7e90
On node 0 totalpages: 131052
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126956 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: ASUS Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 16
Processor #1 6:6 APIC version 16
WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored.
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc1 ro noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1200.008 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 511876k/524208k available (1329k kernel code, 11580k reserved, 727k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 2359.29 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000020
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1199.0893 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 266.0642 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4156k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1f20, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fc5e0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xc610, dseg 0xf0000
pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xe4e0-0xe4ff has been reserved
PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router AMD768 [1022/7443] at 0000:00:07.3
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
BIOS failed to enable PCI standards compliance, fixing this error.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4156 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
NET: Registered protocol family 1
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.02 loaded.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD7441: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
AMD7441: chipset revision 4
AMD7441: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AMD7441: 0000:00:07.1 (rev 04) UDMA100 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
hdc: MDT MD400BB-00DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-216B Q001 20010913, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 497972k swap on /dev/hdc5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdc1, internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Capability LSM initialized
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
AMD756: dev 10ec:8139, router pirq : 1 get irq : 11
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:06.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb800, 00:40:f4:84:ab:50, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
cmpci: version $Revision: 6.82 $ time 23:45:28 Sep 13 2004
AMD756: dev 13f6:0111, router pirq : 1 get irq : 11
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:04.0
cmpci:
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xc800 irq 10
cmpci: chip version = 055
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd 0000:02:05.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:02:05.2: irq 11, pci mem e083b000
ehci_hcd 0000:02:05.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:02:05.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-1-386
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
input: PC Speaker
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected AMD 760MP chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000
hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: DMA disabled
hdc: drive not ready for command
ide1: reset: success
hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: drive not ready for command
ide1: reset: success
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
hw_random: AMD768 system management I/O registers at 0xE400.
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (Node dfb9f300), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKB._STA] (Node dfb9f200), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKC._STA] (Node dfb9ffe0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.LNKD._STA] (Node dfb9fee0), AE_NOT_EXIST
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 2 get irq : 10
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:02:05.0
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.0: irq 12, io base 0000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
AMD756: dev 1106:3038, router pirq : 3 get irq : 12
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:02:05.1
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.1: irq 5, io base 0000c000
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
uhci_hcd 0000:02:05.0: Unlink after no-IRQ? Different ACPI or APIC settings may help.
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out
usb 2-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000 c07f media 10.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00080156. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00080156.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00080156.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00080156.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
smbfs: mount_data version 1936941424 is not supported
smbfs: mount_data version 1936941424 is not supported
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02c95a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0040 c02e media 10.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00080156. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008005a.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008004e.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00080046.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Are you installing the official debian kernel-image or compiling your own?
If you're installing the official kernel (as you seem to be saying), try compiling on your own. Maybe there are conflicts with the acpi settings (for your system) in the official image. Also, maybe the wrong controller is being loaded for your motherboard (don't know if it's possible or not). Or, maybe it's the transition 2.6.x underwent from scsi emulation to native ide.
Either way, compiling on your own sounds like the only solution considering 2.6.x doesn't work from any distribution. If you haven't done it before, it'll be hit and miss.
Also, does the 2.6.8.1 kernel eventually boot, or hang? If it does and there are dhcp errors, that could have to do with the dhcp server you're connected to. The usb stuff might have to do with your /etc/fstab (unless it's your mouse/keyboard, etc).
Try knoppix (use linux26 @ boot time) to see if it boots without errors (and try various keywords like acpi=off). If it does, it's probably not backwards compatability issues, it's the official images.
I am using the stock kernels. Knoppix locks up on boot with either kernel. Kernel 2.6 with Debian does boot, but with no net, no usb, and the dma errors. I suspect all of these problems are rooted in the acpi issues the kernel seems to be having, rendering my entire pci bus unusable by the kernel.
I've compiled 2.4 kernels manually in Gentoo before, but I've never compiled a 2.6 kernel before manually. Actually, I've never compiled any kernel in Debian before.
I'm sure as to the procedure for compiling a working 2.6 kernel in Debian.
There is a known bug in the 2.6 kernel relating to usb.
What mobo are you using? I subscribe to the Debian-user mailing list and there are about a half-dozen of us there that have the same usb problems that you have. All of us are running Gigabyte motherboards, and three of us are running the GA-7IXE4.
I don't know what version of Debian you are running or how lately you have updated your distro, but I run Sarge and keep it updated quite regularly. About a week or so ago an updated hotplug version was released and now I can get my usb scanner and printer to work if I don't boot into the 2.6 kernel with them attached, but run /etc/init.d/hotplug restart after booting. If I boot with the usb devices plugged in the boot process hangs during hotplug's routine of loading the modules and configuring things according to the devices plugged in. I get a "control_timeout on ep0in" error and then the boot process hangs right there.
One other thing I've found very interesting that is related to this is that Knoppix 3.4 when booted into the 2.6 kernel recognizes usb as being present but doesn't recognize any usb devices as being present, but then goes on to say firewire is present and configures firewire devices. My motherboard was manufactured before firewire was even available so I know there is no firewire device capability even built into this board. Now the reason this is relevant in my case is because I used the Knoppix .config file when I compiled my 2.6.8 kernel.
For me the 2.6.8 kernel works the best of all the 2.6 versions I've tried. 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 were complete disasters. I couldn't even get them to compile successfully. I also downloaded and installed a 2.6.7 kernel-image from debian and tried that one. It was far worse than my own compilations are.
Here is a link to a couple of conversations between kernel developers and guys working with them on solving this problem that you might find interesting.
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