On OBSD 4.4 when I disable apm it hangs on "mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support".
On OBSD 4.3, it give me the login prompt, but when I activate the second NIC
(up, dhcp, IP address) the the system hangs.
A documentation from Intel
(http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-028426.htm) says
that a message error could appear when installing W2K: "The BIOS in this
System is not Fully ACPI Compliant". So, i tried to disable acpi, but the
system hangs at "npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using
exception 16" with OBSD 4.3. With OBSD 4.4 the system hangs only when I
activate the second NIC (up, dhcp, IP address).
Another test I did was to disable the on-board NIC and put a second
off-board NIC, so the system had 3 NICs. The system hangs only when I
activate the second NIC. In this case, the DLink NIC (DFE-520TX) make the
system show the message "Watchdog Timeout".
The same NICs in another motherboard doesn't cause the system to hang or to
show error messages. Also, Intel says that this board has no support for
Linux.
Should I discard this model or has something else I can do?
Ooops, I forgot to mention that I have 3 of these boards and the same occurs
with all of them.
Rgds,
Marcello
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stijn" <mail.st...@telenet.be>
To: "Marcello Cruz" <marcello.c...@globo.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Intel D945GCNL with OpenBSD 4.4 Hangs
OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
Hi,
Can you disable apm at the boot prompt? This way acpi will be used. Also
try a recent snapshot to see if this helps.
HTH,
Stijn
