I'm not paying good money for stuff I already have! :P I'm going to compile a custom non-SMP kernel tonight and see how that works out. If it's still not working, I got another server idling with a working NIC. >-)
Thanks for the info. On 3/29/06, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
