There are some pitfalls with SMP kernels. I suggest if you're new to this, that
you read the SMP-Howto, and the Kernel-Howto. All HOWTO's are accessible online
trough http://www.linuxdoc.org and many other sites.
I have a similar setup, except for the network card which is a D-Link DFE528TX O
believe (number might be wrong; I'm falling back on my memory here), and the
fact I have only 128 MB of RAM, and a 13GB harddisk; UDMA/66 connected to the
UDMA/33 bus. Redhat wouldn't find it on the UDMA/66 bus and I found out too
late Mandrake does, but don't feel like opening the stuff up again to reconnect
it..
I have no problems whatsoever, except for some stability issues which appear to
be solved since I swapped the SB Live and the D-link from pci-slot, and some
weird kernel messages (very sporadic) about "illegal interrupt vector on CPU0"
or something like that. But the default SMP kernel worked perfectly, although
I'm running a recompiled stock 2.2.14 SMP kernel now.
Perhaps you have selected the wrong module for your ethernet card? Boot the
standard UP-kernel (I believe it's installed also), and with "lsmod" see which
modules are loaded. Then make sure those are selected when you build a new
kernel.
On Mar 22 David J. Siu wrote:
> I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem
> or know of a way around it?
>
> o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only
> sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does
> windows, and previous distributions on mandrake. I've tried recompiling the
> kernel and that did not seem to work. I've also tried specifying the exact
> amount of ram during the installation and that did not help. Any ideas?
>
> o The other problem that I have is that when I use the default SMP kernel,
> I always get a kernel panic when it tries to mount the proc file system.
> This did not happen in the previous distributions. When I compile my own
> kernel, it seems to not have this prob, but then the networking stuff
> breaks but thats just probably a configuration problem... question is, Is
> any one having this problem? Does anyone know what is causing this kernel
> panic?
>
> I have the following configuration:
>
> o Dual Celeron
> o Abit BP6
> o 192 Megs of RAM
> o Maxtor 10 gig HD
> o Sound blaster Live
> o Creative Labs TNT 2 Ultra
> o Netgear Ehternet Card
>
> Thanks Everyone! Any help would be appreciated
>
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