Re: Some problems moving to new hardware with NetBSD-8/i386

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 4. My wm based gigabit ethernet adapter has performance problems, I
>> was told about this in another thread. So I'm using a USB cdce one for
>> now. Seems to work fine. I'd rather use a PCI-E card. Can someone
>> recommend one?
>
> wm(4) should work. Maybe you have interrupt problems, probably related
> to the fact that you disable ACPI. If this is the case, other add-on
> adapters might have the same problem.

You're probably right. I built a new kernel with PAE enabled (no other
changes from GENERIC) and now the machine boots OK with smp and acpi.

The wm adapter works fine now as well.

Thanks.

Andy