Re: e1000 driver problem with Intel Pro/1000 MT adapter

[Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:00:01PM -0800, Scott Feldman wrote:

> The 4-port card has two 82546 dual-port controllers behind a PCI-X
> bridge.  Your symptoms suggest interrupt routing didn't get setup
> correctly for the controllers behind the bridge.  I've seen more than
> one case where the BIOS gets this wrong.  The fix is to upgrade to the
> latest BIOS.  Hopefully this is the fix for you.  :-)

I just a prerelease of their next BIOS from Supermicro and that seems
to solve the problem!

I still have to boot the SMP kernel to get APIC working, in UP mode
incoming packets are not seen, but I can live with that.

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