From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:55:58 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] that cursed MP platform Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa9c03dc-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 With the release of the new kernel code, I thought I'd return to my one and only dual processor host and try to get it to run Plan 9. This is an old dual Pentium 100MHz computer with EISA and PCI. No EISA adapters and Adaptec SCSI (sadly) on the motherboard. The failure symptoms are an inability to recognise the elnk3 adapter (PCI) _always_ in 9load. In MP mode, it's more an issue of not receiving the incoming interrupts (educated guess) because the card is recognised and even issues DHCP requests, but networking just never seems to get established in any fashion. Sometimes, the problems hit sooner and the machine stops before prompting for file server and auth server IPs, but mostly it just stops after these prompts (details are a bit vague, right now). I'm going to try Linux (Ubuntu) and NetBSD 2.1 as soon as I get a chance on the same platform, to see how successful these are. It ran RedHat for a while and SCO Unix and MPX before then, both without a glitch. Linux was never used much, to be honest. ++L