Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:05:13 -0600 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "John Ekins" <john.ekins@brightview.com>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500 Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10661101A@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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Hi John, The NC3131 has the Intel Fast Ethernet chipset, so the fxp driver should work with it. Did you try the fxp driver? Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Ekins > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:39 AM > To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500 >=20 >=20 > Hello All, >=20 > I tried 5.2 Beta on this, and it installed fine (with acpi=20 > disabled), with > the exception of the network card. The really good news was=20 > the 8 processors > detected during installation and the machine booted up with=20 > an SMP kernel > with all eight enabled. Congratulations to the FreeBSD SMP=20 > team for that! >=20 > 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=20 > simply buy a > supported NIC. >=20 > I can't provide any more useful feedback yet (if it is=20 > wanted) as I can't get > onto the machine except from console. >=20 > Cheers, > John. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-smp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-smp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20
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