Re: problem with using 6 wm0 devices?!

[Harry Waddell <waddell%caravaninfotech.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 21:52:00 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:25:31PM -0700, Harry Waddell wrote:
> > 
> > I built a set of six firewall/routers using supermicro 2U cases ( using 
> > X6DH8 motherboards ), 
> > each with 2 onboard i82546GB nics and one pci-x card with two additional 
> > i82546GB. When I added 
> > an additional 2 port card to one of the routers, the new nics attached as 
> > wm0 and wm1. 
> > I can configure wm1-wm5 up with no problems, but wm0 hangs the systems. ( 
> > console responds to CR, but ifconfig doesn't return -- system is otherwise 
> > unresponsive ) This fails with the GENERIC and install kernels for 4.0.
> > 
> > Looking through the archives, I thought it might be an issue with kernel 
> > buffers, so I increased 
> > NMBCLUSTERS to 32K, but this had no effect. I also tried netbsd 4.0 AMD64, 
> > but that didn't work either.
> > 
> > A GENERIC ACPI INSTALL netbsd i386 -current kernel works fine ( as does 
> > opensuse 10.3 ), so I think the hardware is ok, but I also tried different 
> > cards just to be doubly sure. 
> 
> Could it be some interrupt routing issue ? What happens if remove the working
> adapter from its PCI slot ? You can also try to swap the two adapters.
> 

You're probably right. I've already tried moving the cards around in various 
ways. 
Perhaps I should mention that there is also a 3ware raid card in one of the 
pci-x slots.
As I recall, there were combinations which resulted in the raid card not being 
seen by the 
bios as well. 

I'll try moving a few more things around, as well as booting off an install cd 
with the raid card removed to see if that makes a difference -- it won't solve 
anything, but it might yield some 
useful information. 

Thanks!

Harry Waddell