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Re: NIC problem



On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:29:35PM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Peter Samek wrote:
> > 
> > If you grep /var/log/dmesg (or any logfile with boot messages) for eth0
> > or eth1, you should be able to find out.
> > 
> > Example from my machine:
> > 
> > $ grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg
> > eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> > eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xec00, IRQ 18, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
> 
> Good point.  It turned out to be the SiS. :)  Anyone know about the
> APIC thing?  Does APIC provide any benefit on a uniprocessor machine?

I'm _no_ guru, but I'm given to understand that no, APIC is of no use on
a single-processor machine. I've also resolved an annoying network card
issue by removing it, although it was with a totally different card.

	Cheers!
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