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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:12:37 -0700
From:      Kelsey Cummings <kgc@sonic.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP problems on 4.4
Message-ID:  <20010928111237.T953@sonic.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010927160720.G953@sonic.net>; from kgc@sonic.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:07:20PM -0700
References:  <20010927160720.G953@sonic.net>

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This is the second time I've posted this problem and the second
time I haven't gotten a single response.  Am I missing something
obvious or leaving something really important out?

It just seems odd that the box runs with a non SMP kernel just
fine, with an SMP kernel everything but the NIC works just
fine.  Is the dc driver SMP bugged or do people suspect some
other problem?

It kinda looks like the PNIC 82c169 should be avoided, eh?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:07:20PM -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> I've never been able to get an SMP kernel to work properly on
> this old Tyan Tomcat that I picked up.  Single CPU works great.
> 
> When booting dmesg displays:
> 
> agora /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
> agora /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
> agora /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
> agora /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched
> 
> According to the list archives this doesn't appear to be a
> problem?  Correct?
> 
> The problem is that the NIC appears to reset it self every few
> seconds, (all link/status lights go off .. on .. off .. on ..)
> 
> The NIC is a cheapo kingston? <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX>
> 
> I haven't tried swapping out the NIC yet, I've got some 3coms
> around...  I'm not sure if the CPU's need to be matched either,
> they appear to be the same generation PII300s but have wildly
> different serials.  Do the PIIs need to be matched the same way
> that old ppros did?

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