Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

[Frank de Lange]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:51:54AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Frank de Lange wrote:
> > 
> > It could be that people using those cards are not the ones who tend
> > to go for the (somewhat tricky) BP6 board...
> > 
> 
> I doubt that it's BP6 specific: I have the problem with a Gigabyte BXD
> board and I doubt that Ingo used an BP6. Perhaps 82093AA specific (the
> IO APIC chip used for SMP 440BX board)

It isn't. But I just meant to indicate that the mere fact that I could not find
any problem-report for that combination does not indicate that there ARE no
problems...

> I can't find any spec updates for that chip: either it's the first
> perfect chip Intel ever produced, or ...

:-)

Well, the BX chipset is one of their better attempts I think...

Frank
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