From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 27 12:23:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20163 for smp-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:23:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA20121 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 27221 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Nov 1997 20:22:47 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-111997 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:22:47 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Dave Smith Subject: RE: fxp0 or de0 will not work with FreeBSD 3.0 in SMP mode. (fwd Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 26-Nov-97 Dave Smith wrote: > > Big Problem, > > Two identical machines, except for their ethernet cards. > For the generic kernel on both machines the cards work fine, i.e. > connect to the network, in the generic kernel that comes with FreeBSD > 3. > They do no work when the SMP kernel is the installed kernel. > > 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet cards (fxp0 and fxp1) in > one > machine, www6. > 1 Linksys Etherfast 100Base-TX Lan card (de0) in another machine, > www5. ... What motherboard? PCI Slots? Reason I ask; we routinely build machines with FOUR of these Intel cards and they run just fine. SMP included. We had similar problems with certain boards on certain motherboards. Has to do with the PCI-PXI bridges or interupt handling. Does the same configuration work with a UP kernel? Simon