Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:38:42 +0000 From: John Ekins <john.ekins.REMOVE@brightview.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500 Message-ID: <20031211173842.415821b3.john.ekins.REMOVE@brightview.com> In-Reply-To: <20031208224435.59795703.john.ekins.REMOVE@brightview.com> References: <20031208224435.59795703.john.ekins.REMOVE@brightview.com>
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Hello All, I tried 5.2 Beta on this, and it installed fine (with acpi disabled), with the exception of the network card. The really good news was the 8 processors detected during installation and the machine booted up with an SMP kernel with all eight enabled. Congratulations to the FreeBSD SMP team for that! The network card was a problem. It is a NC3131 which I can see is not supported by FreeBSD. This is not a major problem as I will simply buy a supported NIC. I can't provide any more useful feedback yet (if it is wanted) as I can't get onto the machine except from console. Cheers, John.
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