I'll check this on my box as soon as possible. I've had random crashes 
with the SMP kernel too and the NIC is a 10MBit DEC chip card. There are 
other issues as well and they too sem to be related to the PCI bus.

Cheers,
Anders

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:14:18 +0100
> From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@thebsh.sygroup.ch>
> To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
> Cc: NetBSD/Alpha Discussion List <port-alpha@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Continued problems with SMP on NetBSD/alpha
> 
> Salut,
>
> FYI, a preliminary solution seems to have been the removal of the stge
> card. (It was a D-Link Gigabit Ethernet ;) I have put in a Tulip 100Mbit
> card (DEC chip) now. Enumerating the PCI bus still leads to a machine
> check exception, but it seems to run fine otherwise for several weeks now.
>
> What worries me however is the PCI bus problem, because you can bring
> the machine down as a normal user using this command: pcictl pci0 list
>
> 				Tonnerre
>

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