SMP and network

[Rick Stevens]

administrator tootai wrote:
> Rick Stevens a écrit :
> 
>> administrator tootai wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I have an P166MMX router under RH73 kernel 2.4.24. I want to switch 
>>> to a bi processor Celeron PII on ASUS motherboard. I update my 
>>> .config file like:
>>>
>>> - change processor from MMX to Celeron
>>> - activate SMP with 2 processors defined
>>> - remove APM
>>> - activate ACPI
>>>
>>> When I boot, everything is fine except that I can't have network 
>>> working. I have 2 network cards and one ADSL PCI card. I get message 
>>> "check if cards are plugged and working" when trying to modprobe 
>>> modules.
>>>
>>> Have someone idea where to look? Could it be an APIC problem?
>>
>>
>>
>> Does "lspci" list the cards?  If not, they're not being seen by the
>> PCI bus.  I doubt it's an APIC problem, but you can find out by adding
>> the "noapic" option to the boot command line.  You may also have an ACPI
>> problem, so also try "acpi=off".
> 
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> I'm just closing this matter: I find out that *all* modules where'nt 
> loaded. I tried all your above mentionned possibilities, nothing to do. 
> I finally make an mrproper before building SMP kernel and it worked! As 
> explained in SMP howto, APM has also to be disabled.

Ah.  Yes, a "make mrproper" is fairly essential.  There's an article I
wrote on the RHIL website about building kernels:

	http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild.html

> Thanks for your hints.

You figured it out.  Glad you did.
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