Re: 2nd nfe interface not showing up on Tyan S2895

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:22:08AM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> Rod Person <rodperson_at_verizon.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:27:25 +0100
> > "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno_at_heho.snv.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >  - more serious, this board is supposed to have two of them
> > >    (enabled in BIOS as 'Slave Device') but only one of them
> > >    shows up at boot (and in pciconf -vl)
> > 
> >  
> > > Does anyone have a hint how to get that second interface at least
> > > to show up? Thanx in advance and feel free to contact me for
> > > more detailed info.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have an S2895 with the dual Gigabit nics. I've been running CURRENT
> > since Feb 2006 and never had a problem getting both nics to show up as
> > long as the 2nd is enabled in the BIOS. The only problems I've had is
> > with the Firewire support, which worked for a moment then cause all
> > kinds of problems. Are you sure that the 2nd nic is good?
> 
> No : I just bought the board a couple of days ago and did not
> try anything else than fbsd on it.
> 
> That said, I looked again at the Block Diagram in the manual and
> wonder whether they mean "second physical CPU"? I just
> have one Opteron 285 installed for now (ordered a second one).
> Do you have physically two CPUs installed? 

That would do it.  If you only have one CPU, then any device that should be
connected to the second CPU will not work, since those devices are connected
to the HyperTransport links the CPU provides - and without the CPU in place
those devices are simply not connected to the rest of the board.



> 
> I have both interfaces enabled in the BIOS (and playing with the
> "MAC Bridge" setting does not help (but I do not understand what
> that setting is supposed to do...)
> 
> Thanx for your help
> 
> Regards, Arno
> 



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