Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Network problem
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:57:24
Message-Id: ebq6at$1fm$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Network problem by Roman Zilka
1 Roman Zilka <rzilka@××××.cz> posted 20060814125029.A16432@××××××××××.cz,
2 excerpted below, on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:50:29 +0200:
3
4 > just a shot in the dark: you run an SMP kernel; but does your computer
5 > really contain more than one processor? If not, try compiling the kernel
6 > without SMP and then run such kernel with the agruments "noapic
7 > nolapic" (or completely disable APIC support in the kernel).
8
9 It should be noted of course that the new dual-cores are a single
10 processor (chip), but are handled in Linux with SMP. I'm not sure,
11 however, whether single socket dual-core units need the apic stuff of
12 conventional multi-socket units or not, but they do need smp or you're
13 just using a single core.
14
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16 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
17 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
18 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Network problem Santiago Ferreira <santiago.ferreira@×××××.com>