Date: 29 Oct 2007 01:39:44 +0100 From: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd nfe interface not showing up on Tyan S2895 Message-ID: <wpodeiu52n.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20071029003116.GA23339@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <wppryzxfg2.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> <20071028200538.2181ba87@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> <wpabq2n51r.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> <20071029003116.GA23339@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:22:08AM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > Rod Person <rodperson@verizon.net> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:27:25 +0100 > > > "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > - more serious, this board is supposed to have two of them > > > > (enabled in BIOS as 'Slave Device') but only one of them > > > > shows up at boot (and in pciconf -vl) > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone have a hint how to get that second interface at least > > > > to show up? Thanx in advance and feel free to contact me for > > > > more detailed info. > > > > > > > > > > I have an S2895 with the dual Gigabit nics. I've been running CURRENT > > > since Feb 2006 and never had a problem getting both nics to show up as > > > long as the 2nd is enabled in the BIOS. The only problems I've had is > > > with the Firewire support, which worked for a moment then cause all > > > kinds of problems. Are you sure that the 2nd nic is good? > > > > No : I just bought the board a couple of days ago and did not > > try anything else than fbsd on it. > > > > That said, I looked again at the Block Diagram in the manual and > > wonder whether they mean "second physical CPU"? I just > > have one Opteron 285 installed for now (ordered a second one). > > Do you have physically two CPUs installed? > > That would do it. If you only have one CPU, then any device that should be > connected to the second CPU will not work, since those devices are connected > to the HyperTransport links the CPU provides - and without the CPU in place > those devices are simply not connected to the rest of the board. OK, I see. Thanx again for you help. Regards, Arno
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