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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 2003 21:24:52 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Roar Pettersen <edprp@it.uib.no>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp2 : device timeout
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0304062120230.17086-100000@alf.uib.no>
In-Reply-To: <iqs09v4eaf3jh398le1mth0rjq3kbvccbi@4ax.com>

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Hello !

> * If you have PnP enabled in your BIOS, turn it off.
> * try and do a PCIconfig reset in your BIOS if it supports that.
> * try and have the cards on non shared interrupts.
> * if the 2 cards having problems are in PCI slots that share interrupts and
> DMA, separate them into slots that do not.
> * You are *probably* best off to enable device_polling with that many
> cards. See man 4 polling

Compiling the kernel with GENERIC config file, then all four
fxp interfaces are working. So I disabled SMP in my own kernel config
file, and now all four fxp interfaces also work with my own kernel
configuration.

The server is a Compaq ProLiant DL380 with two :

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S 1400MHz (1390.66-MHz
686-class CPU)



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Med vennlig hilsen / Regards;

  Roar Pettersen
  Universitetet i Bergen -  The University of Bergen
  Nygardsgt. 5  -  N-5020 BERGEN  - Norway
  Tlf: +47 55 58 40 55  VIP: 81503  fax: +47 55 58 40 70
  roar.pettersen@it.uib.no - IT-Avd, UiB - http://www.uib.no



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