On Thursday 29 March 2007 21:06, J.C. Roberts wrote: > 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
crap! s/ACPI/ESCD The problematic configuration data can be cached/stored in the Extended System Configuration Data (ECSD) not the ACPI. Sorry for the brain fade. jcr
