From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 3 12:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from exuma.irbs.com (exuma.irbs.com [216.86.160.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C110037B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by exuma.irbs.com (Postfix, from userid 2500) id E6E2A17406; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:25:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:25:32 -0500 From: John Capo To: Greg Whynott , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP kernel issues: NIC driver time outs, scsi bus resets; version 4.2R - 4.4R Message-ID: <20011203152532.B69855@exuma.irbs.com> Reply-To: jc@irbs.com References: <3C0BCE1C.B401AFE5@aw.sgi.com> <20011203132549.F21099@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20011203132549.F21099@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@prism.flugsvamp.com on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:25:49PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have seen fxp timeouts on an old Gigabyte 440LX based SMP board but its slot dependent. You might try moving the fxp card to a different slot. John Capo Quoting Jonathan Lemon (jlemon@prism.flugsvamp.com): > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:10:20PM -0500, Greg Whynott wrote: > > Hello- > > The intel (fxp) NIC drivers usually do not work when I have enabled a > > SMP kernel. Is this a known problem with SMP kernels and device drivers > > in the 4.X RELEASE line? > > I think so. The problem was recently observed by some other users, > and they think it is specific to N440BX boards. I can't tell > from your dmesg, but does your motherboard happen to use this chipset? > > The workaround at this point is to disable SMP. Unfortunately, I don't > have one of these boards here, so I can't test things out. > -- > Jonathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message