Ethernet cards not working - Interrrupt routing problem?
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Sat Feb 12 16:22:00 PST 2005
Frank wrote:
> [I posted this message on -STABLE yesterday, but I got a mail,
> that I should try this mailing list instead. Also I forgot to
> mention that the machine in question is a Fujitsu Siemens
> Primergy RX300 -- thanks for any advice, Frank]
>
> I have a weird problem with hardware that runs fine under FreeBSD 4.9
> but is unusable under FreeBSD 5.3. The problem concentrates apparently
> arround interrupt assignments, the Adaptec scsci card in combination
> with the Ethernet cards.
The difference is that 4.9 doesn't support full IOAPIC, 5.x does. The
first thing you should do is upgrade your BIOS to the latest stable
version. There were some problems with older ServerWorks BIOSen. If
that doesn't work, send dmesg from boot -v.
> ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC >
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9
> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory = 536870912 (512 MB)
> avail memory = 515682304 (491 MB)
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-15 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 16-31 on motherboard
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard
Yep, ServerWorks which we all know and love. :)
--
Nate
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