Problem solved. Cause: Interrupt 11 was being used by both ide2 and eth0. I found this by doing "cat /proc/interrupts" from command line. Solution: Move the card on the pci bus 1 slot over. Thanks to those who offered suggestions :-)) I had a suspicion that it had to do with interrupts from many problems with FreeBSD and SMP interrupt handling. I am posting this to give someone else the benefit of my frustration and aggravation (if they do a search of the m/l archives) Sorry to take up the bandwidth and mail space. On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, I wrote:
I hope someone can help me with this one. I have come from Free BSD to SuSe 6.3 with the hope that the SMP support is better with Linux. So far I am not having much luck. Here is my hardware: ABIT BP6 mb 2 Celeron 500MHz 3.2 and 6.4 WD hd on ide 0 atapi cdr and atapi cdrw on ide 1 20g udma66 WD hd on HPT66 controller (ide2) Voodoo Banshee AGP video External 56k modem on sio1 3com 905c on pci bus
The problem: If I enable the nic on eth0 the boot process stalls at some random point- one time at "starting syslog services" next time "initializing SMTP port" and "starting console mouse support (gpm):" The system is wedged hard- requires a reset. Nothing else will respond. I have then booted with the cd(#2) and everything seems to run OK but only on one processor. Very frustrating. I have been messing with this for 4 days now and have run out of ideas. Please be simplistic with your responses- I have a Unix and Free BSD background but only 4 days of Linux experience :-)
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