On Mon 02 May 05,  1:33 PM, Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My dual-p3 system has, for a very long time, been unable to use the smp 
> version of the 2.6 Linux kernel; when I tried it, the system would be unable 
> to communicate with either the network card (and I tried several) nor with 
> any USB devices.
> 
> Today while installing Kubuntu on this computer, I had the same problem.  The 
> 2.6 smp kernel simply wouldn't let my computer talk to the network card or 
> the USB hub.  I finally hit upon this option for doing the installation:
> 
> boot: linux noacip nolacip
> 
> This apparently disables something to do with the interrupts, which I had long
> suspected was the problem.  Seems to work like a charm so far.

Is that acip or apic?

Pete

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