SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500

[Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)]

Hi John,

The NC3131 has the Intel Fast Ethernet chipset, so the fxp driver should
work with it.

Did you try the fxp driver?

Regards,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-smp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-smp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Ekins
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: freebsd-smp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I tried 5.2 Beta on this, and it installed fine (with acpi 
> disabled), with
> the exception of the network card. The really good news was 
> the 8 processors
> detected during installation and the machine booted up with 
> an SMP kernel
> with all eight enabled. Congratulations to the FreeBSD SMP 
> team for that!
> 
> The network card was a problem. It is a NC3131 which I can see is not
> supported by FreeBSD. This is not a major problem as I will 
> simply buy a
> supported NIC.
> 
> I can't provide any more useful feedback yet (if it is 
> wanted) as I can't get
> onto the machine except from console.
> 
> Cheers,
> John.
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