From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 3 11:57:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from zok.sgi.com (zok.SGI.COM [204.94.215.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787D937B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from awrelay.tor.aw.sgi.com (awrelay.tor.aw.sgi.com [192.75.20.31]) by zok.sgi.com (8.11.4/8.11.4/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id fB3JvbA21256; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:57:37 -0800 Received: from butler.tor.aw.sgi.com by awrelay.tor.aw.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA09098; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:23:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from aw.sgi.com by butler.tor.aw.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA82646; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:59:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C0BD9B3.D4C5AF00@aw.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:59:47 -0500 From: Greg Whynott Organization: Alias | Wavefront SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.5 IP32) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP kernel issues: NIC driver time outs, scsi bus resets; version 4.2R - 4.4R References: <3C0BCE1C.B401AFE5@aw.sgi.com> <20011203132549.F21099@prism.flugsvamp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thanks for the quick reply Jonathan, According to this web page I have the 440FX (NATOMA) chipset, this is my main board. http://www.tyan.com/products/html/a_titanproat.html I'll visualy confirm this tonight. (machine is at home) thanks again, greg Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > 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 -- Gregory.Whynott. Network.Administrator. Alias|Wavefront SGI. Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message