2.6.5-r1: no network, no sound, no mouse...

[Mudvin13]

I have a problem running 2.6.5-r1 kernel on my machine at work:
Dual Athlon MP 2000+
Asus a7m266-d
ns83820 NIC
1Gb ram
GeForce mx440

This problem arises from the very start of installation: after booting from livecd i wasn't able to ping neighbour machines, although net-setup eth0 was just fine, and ifconfig shows working eth0 device. It was solved by next boot params string:
"smp noacpi noapm nohotplug nodhcp"
After booting with this string i was able to "modprobe ns83820" and network was just ok.

Well, then i've installed whole system, and got the same problem again: i am not able to make my network working. Tried dozens of combinations of those "noacpi noapic nolapic noapm pci=noapic", recompiled kernel with power management/acpi turned on/off - no luck.
dmesg differs from try to try, but always ran into three situations:
1. "probably bad MP table" on module load - if acpi support was turned off in kernel
2. "No IRQ known for interrupt pin @" - note that symbol '@', not ABCD, but '@'.
3. No errors at all, but dmesg tells that after module loading "interface is down", although ifconfig still shows it as it up.

I don't have any idea what to do except erasing whole partition and forget about linux on this machine, but decided to write here as a last hope...