2nd nfe interface not showing up on Tyan S2895
Arno J. Klaassen
arno at heho.snv.jussieu.fr
Sun Oct 28 17:39:47 PDT 2007
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:22:08AM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> > Rod Person <rodperson at verizon.net> writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:27:25 +0100
> > > "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno at 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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