From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751040AbWDQQtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:49:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751093AbWDQQtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:49:12 -0400 Received: from earth.cora.nwra.com ([65.125.157.180]:56726 "EHLO earth.cora.nwra.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbWDQQtK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4443C6FA.8020105@cora.nwra.com> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:48:58 -0600 From: Orion Poplawski User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Brandeburg , "''Linux Kernel Mailing List ' '" Subject: Re: Problems (lockup/hang) with PCI-X slot on X5DPL motherboard References: <4807377b0604161104p5d6e32d9wbbb0184fc7a1b1a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4807377b0604161104p5d6e32d9wbbb0184fc7a1b1a1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > > On these supermicro systems often they have jumpers to control the slots, > are they set correctly? Make sure that if your e1000 and slot six are > sharing a bus, that neither of them is running at faster than PCI-X 100 MHz > (check in ethtool -d ethX for e1000) > Is there a way to find out bus speed for other slots/cards? > so do the other slots work okay with your MV card? The supermicro systems > had tons and tons of ACPI table problems, so you may want to look closely at > your dmesg and / or try acpi=off kernel boot line. > In general, yes, though I just had a lockup with this new MV card in my test system. Otherwise, my X5DPL-TGM with on MV card in slot 4 and one Intel GigE in slot 5 has been quite stable. > If you think you're having a network problem posting to > netdev@vger.kernel.org would be good. I think it's only related to device/bus issues, not in general. Thanks a lot for the reply. I'll be trying to turn down the bus speed in the BIOS to see if that help. -- Orion Poplawski System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222 Colorado Research Associates/NWRA FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder CO 80301 http://www.co-ra.com