Re: Kernel panic on Dual Athlon MP

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
01 Aug 2002 20:05:53 +0100

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 18:48, kwijibo@zianet.com wrote:
> >My board won't even POST with a tg3 card in it. With a newer BIOS it
> >
> Great, I had plans to put a tg3 card in my dual Athlon box.
> Do you know if this is a Tiger board only problem? I have
> the Thunder S2462UNG with just the MP chipset. How
> new of a bios? I don't plan to use the tg3 card on the box
> until 2.4.19 comes out due to the important fixes in it for
> the tg3.

The BIOS in mine is pretty old and newer BIOSes fix it. As I understand
it this was caused by PCI misconfiguration in the BIOS. I've not tested
current compatibility myself so I'm going on what I've heard there.

> I have 2 3ware 7850's on a dual Athlon MP 1900 box and I have
> no problems yet with it. I am about to increase the network to
> gigi speed and I hope it has no problems. Currently this is
> with 2.4.18.

Good to hear

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