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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:25:32 -0500
From:      John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
To:        Greg Whynott <gwhynott@aw.sgi.com>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <20011203132549.F21099@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@prism.flugsvamp.com on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:25:49PM -0600
References:  <3C0BCE1C.B401AFE5@aw.sgi.com> <20011203132549.F21099@prism.flugsvamp.com>

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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
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