On Thursday 29 March 2007 16:57, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > Everything worked great the only trouble I had was *if* the plug and > play os option in bios was set to yes. the GENERIC kernel will panic > on boot up, however with the plug and play os option in bios set to > NO I get the following dmesg.
Sam, You didn't specifically mention model numbers, so I'm unable to check if this is even applicable; you might want to try making sure each of the cards is running current firmware. Depending on the mfg age (and/or firmware revision), this *might* make a difference to plug-n-play. Same is true for your system bios firmware. It's a long shot but worth a try. Also clearing the system cache of ACPI data in the bios, then adding the cards one at a time might help to get past the pnp conflict (i.e. conflict is stored). The largest test I've done was years ago with 20+ ports with various brands of NIC's. It works but you need to realize the limitations of your PCI buses. If you try to do max bandwidth across all ports, you can expect poor performance since you will be saturating the PCI buses. -jcr
