> >Yes, it is SMP indeed. A UP kernel+modules works allright, using either
> >3c509 or eexpress. A SMP kernel fails with both. The eexpress driver is
> >more interesting, though, it spits out these:
>
> The etherexpress driver may well be broken for SMP. I'll look the code over
> and see if I can spot any obvious problem areas.
>
> In 2.3 terms I hope to get around to writing a generic 82586 driver to handle
> eexpress, 3c507 and so on and hopefully these problems should come out in the
> wash.
>
Then it must be both drivers ... I just tried ne2k-pci and couldn't
reproduce the mysterious crashing, so this would hint towards 3c509 and
eexpress being broken. BTW, 3c509 does not use 82586, but you probably
already knew that.
Do people with different NICs have problems in SMP configurations?
Taneli <taneli@firmament.fi>
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