On 07/06/2007 03:05 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > Hello! > > I just got some Netxen 10Gbe CX4 adapters and put them into freshly > updated Fedora 7 64-bit systems. So far, I am not having much luck. > > Kernel is: Official F7 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 > > NIC: > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NXB-10GCX4 10 Gigabit > Ethernet PCIe Adapter with CX4 copper interface (rev 25) > > The motherboard chipset is Intel based (I can provide more info is someone > cares..but I first wanted to make sure there are no well-known issues.) > > Interesting boot messages: > > Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> > GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: netxen-nic: unable to allocate MSI > interrupt error > Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: netxen-nic: XGbE board initialized > > Is that MSI error fatal? >
Try kernel option "pci=msi". MSI causes so many problems in 2.6.20/2.6.21 that Fedora turned it off by default. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
