10.0-BETA3 NICs not working on Soekris Net6501-70

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:53:00 -0500
Adam McDougall wrote:

> On 11/14/2013 19:36, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today, I've tried to upgrade my Soekris Net6501-70 from 9.2-STABLE to
> > 10.0-BETA3. But with the new kernel (GENERIC) I get the following errors:
> >
> > ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
> > [..]
> > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xc0f156e0, 0) error 19
> > ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
> > ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
> > ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
> > [..]
> >
> > Running 'ifconfig -a' outputs:
> >
> > : flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> > : flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST>
> > ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> > ð: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>
> > ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> > ö: flags=0<>
> > ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> >
> > [...]
> >
> Try "device mptable" in your kernel config.  I am running 10-beta2
> on a 6501-70. As far as I know, they've never made an ACPI bios
> for it yet, so you need the older mptable option.

Unfortunately I am running i386:

config: Error: device "mptable" is unknown
config: 1 errors
*** Error code 1

So I'll try amd64...

Thanks.

-- 
Herbert