I have exactly the same issue as you with SuSE 9.0. No network, no usb and no sound with smp kernel. However drivers where correctly loaded, but nothing worked. I fixed this issue by installing the non-smp kernel k_deflt. I use P4 Hyper threading, so I need smp kernel in order to use HT. I installed a self compiled kernel (2.4.23-rc1 from kernel.org) and now everything works well with smp support. SuSE smp kernel may have some issue. However, have a look at your bios setup. Look for an option called "Installed OS". Move it from Win XP to DOS. This solve many issue like the one you described. Le Mercredi 12 Novembre 2003 18:34, Peter L. Berghold a écrit :
Hi folks,
I'm new to SUSE Linux so be gentle. I have worked with Red Hat extensively so at least I'm not a total newbie.
I just performed an FTP installation of SUSE Linux on a box that I built from parts and the motherboard has a sis900 built in ethernet adapter.
During the actual installation this worked fine, but when the newly built system booted up the card inexplicably stopped working. Some detective work later I figured out that the difference between the installation as the install used a non-SMP kernel and installed an SMP kernel on the box.
Does anybody out there know what the magic incantation is to get the network card to work in an SMP environment or am I doomed to building a non-SMP kernel and running on that?
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