SMP and dual tulip: Solution!

[Olof Zachrisson]

Hi,

Just wanted to tell you about my problem and solution with a
dual Celeron (Abit BP6 based) system with two 21140 NICs.
Running RedHat 6.0 or 6.1, I just couldn't get the second
card to work, although ifconfig reported success for both
interfaces. (It worked with a non-smp kernel, though.)

Anyway, I just found out that changing the setting of
"MPS Version Control for OS" from 1.1 to 1.4 appearantly
solved the problem!  This setting is found in the BIOS
Features Setup Menu.

Many thanks to Unknown, who mailed me several weeks
ago about this setting.

Mvh //OLof