This is kind of an odd situation and I'm thoroughly confused as to why things don't work. I have a router/file server/web server, dual p3 board with two nics one using the tulip and the other using 8139too driver. For as long as I can remember I've had to put noapic on the kernel cmdline to get network to work. Something having to due with local apic being automatically selected when enabling smp. With apic I don't have any network, dhcpcd doesn't work I can assign static ip's and static routes but can't ping anything. And now when I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.16.9 from 16.2 I'm getting the same results as without passing noapic to the kernel. Any suggestions as to why this is happening and what I can do to update my kernel and make things work would be helpful. - David Brown -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
