Thanks Francois.

Unfortunately I couldn't get NFS to work with the updated kernel, so I had to 
revert to the original from SuSE 10.2.

The other thing that didn't work with 2.6.21.5 was suspend-to-disk (would 
suspend, but not resume), so I don't have any useful input for you this time.

I'll be back.

regards,
Peter

Peter Missel [off-list ref] :
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The patch applies without failure; I'm getting a warning during build,

  CC [M]  drivers/net/r8169.o
drivers/net/r8169.c: In function ‘rtl8169_start_xmit’:
drivers/net/r8169.c:2341: warning: ‘txd’ may be used uninitialized in
this function

It's known and harmless. Blame gcc :o)