I use MPACPI option instead of MPBIOS. NIC works. 

Thanks. :)


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:21:34 +0100, Frank van der Linden
<fvdl@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Ok.. looks like this is an nVidia-based board. Problems with nVidia
> boards have been documented before: basically they don't work well when
> using the IO APICs. And NetBSD/amd64 always uses those (which should
> always work). But apparently there's something with the nVidia board
> that makes it not work. NetBSD/i386 does not use the IO APICs by
> default, so it works.
> 
> It's been reported that Linux works because it simply doesn't use the
> IO APICs on the board.
> 
> You can try compiling a kernel without ioapic support (i.e. comment
> it out in the kernel config file), this will probably work. But
> it's actually unsupported.
> 
> One thing you could try is to use the MPACPI option (and acpi0 at mainbus?)
> in the config file, and leave out MPBIOS, and then reconfigure+recompile
> the kernel.
> 
> If anyone has information on what it takes to make the nVidia IO APICs
> work, I'll be very happy to hear it. The only thing I can come up with
> is that there are some bits in the PCI-PCI bridge that need to be set
> (ex0 is the only device using interrupts behind a bridge).
> 
> - Frank
>