Hi,
I have a dual P100 system (ALR Revolution Q-4SMP) which runs RH 7.2
flawlessly, though the SMP-HOWTO gives a vague indication that these older
ALR SMP systems are "iffy". This machine has 10 EISA slots (3 are also
VLB), so I cannot install anything PCI in it of course.
I installed an ISA NE2000 clone card I had in my "old parts bin", and it
appeared to work fine once I put the IRQ and IO info in modules.conf - until
I ran some fairly heavy network traffic through it. The interface simply
appeared to stop responding after transferring between a few hundred
kilobytes and around a megabyte of data (different quantities each time).
This happens every time I send any files of any decent size to or from the
machine in question via the NE2000 clone. I have tried 2 different cards,
of different brands (both NE2000 clones), with the same effect. I've also
tried setting the cards to various IRQ and IO values via their respective
setup disks, making the appropriate changes to modules.conf each time - same
results.
The machine in question also has a SMC ISA NIC (8216C is the model - uses
the smc-ultra module) which displays none of these characteristics. The
obvious solution would be to get another SMC 8216C, but this machine is just
a little hobby of mine with a total hardware investment of about $25 so far,
those cards are fairly hard to find on ebay, and I'm currently broke flatter
than Julia Roberts' chest, due to my current state of extended unemployment.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? Could this behavior be due to the
weird SMP architecture of this ALR box? Better yet, any suggestions as to
how I can correct this behavior?
Thanks!
Jeff Lanthripp
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