fxp2 : device timeout

[Roar Pettersen]

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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