On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:15 +0200, Mr FUBAR wrote: > I'm busy building a router running Arch. I took a NIC from my idling > AlphaServer 800 (DE500). > > I need to modprobe the de4x5 module for the NIC to work. This works > nicely. However, when I try to get the NIC up (e.g. with the > /etc/rc.d/network script) the computer just freezes: the keyboard > LED's don't even respond anymore. > > Could this be because of the NIC "belonging" to my AS800?
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/1212.html Seems the de4x5 driver is not SMP compatible. According to this post the driver won't even work on a single CPU system with an SMP kernel, so I guess it requires a kernel recompile without SMP. I guess the easiest option is to put the card back in your alphaserver and get a cheap decent card that just works (TM), like realtek 8139, 3com 3c905C-TXM or Intel e100 cards. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
