I've had both your problems, but on separate machines. Perhaps your 2 issues are independent? 1. SMP I got that reply from SUSE in the past. After much protest on my part, they suggested that I turn off ACPI support (a boot option) since it is not SMP safe. Happiness! 2. NICs Are your 2 cards rtl8139 s? They did poorly for me. (Conflicted with Promise controller, apparently). I got a multi-ethernet card (DEC Tulip card <$100 on ebay). Stable and fast! This one looks similar (but I have no interest or knowledge of the vendor): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3411850319&catego... Hope this helps. Paul Alfille On Wednesday 09 April 2003 14:13, Robert Fenney wrote:
I just got a reply back from SuSE that troubles me a little. Basically, they do not provide installation support for SMP based systems. But they did point out that I could purchase a support package. So I guess I am back to solving this one on my own (unless a kind sole has a suggestion.) I seem to remember that Redhat provided installation support for SMP systems. Does anyone know off of the top of their head?
Thanks everyone!
Robert
On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Robert Fenney wrote:
O.K.
I have build three systems and upgraded a 8.0 to 8.1 over the last couple of weeks and have had some problems:
It looks like that USB keyboards and Mice don't work but default. In 8.0 I configured the system them changed to the USB device and that was it. This is not true in 8.1.
When installing 8.0 or 8.1 on a SMP system with two NIC cards the networking does not work. I always have to pull one of the cards, get the networking up and running and then install the second card. I messed with one of my systems in 8.0 and got it working and then promptly forgot about it think it would be fixed in the next release. Well it is not and I my system has two NICs on the motherboard so I can't just pull one like before. Besides I would really like to document the problem this time around. So has anyone else seen this?
Has anyone worked with any of the file systems that support large files ( greater than 1 or 2 gigs?) I use Reiser but maybe it is time to look at one of the other file systems if Reiser does not support this?
I know that there has been a lot of bandwidth on the system shutdown behavior with the SMP kernels but really isn't it about time for SuSE to fix this? I mean really, all of the system house have this working, why do we need to recompile the kernel just for this? The behavior should be the same between the single CPU and multi-CPU kernels out of the box.
I am not trying to flame I just think that after two years of seeing the same issues they should be fixed. And before you say get the compiler and the source I pay for the upgrades from SuSE and I want to be a "USER" on these issues so I pay them by purchasing the upgrades.
Thanks if anyone can help. I also sent a similar request into SuSE support so I will let you know what I here if anyone is interested.
Robert
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