Calvin Webster
2006-Oct-29 22:12 UTC
[Xen-users] b44 0000.03.00.0: No usable DMA configuration, aborting
Does anyone know how to get the BCM4401-B0 NIC working with the FC6 xen kernel? I wiped a perfectly good FC5 installation to install FC6 so now I''ve got to use other machines to try to find an answer. Transcribing log entries by hand is tedious too. Neither the hardwire (b44) or wireless (ipw3945) NICS work, but I really need the copper Ethernet to work first because I can''t use wireless at work. Hardware: Dell Inspiron E1705 (9400) Notebook CPU: Intel Core Duo 2.16 GHz HDD: Hitachi HTS72101 SATA 100GB RAM: 2GB dual-channel NICs: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG BIOS: A00 VT-ext: Enabled in BIOS OS: Fedora Core 6 Kernel: 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen Excerpt from dmesg: -------------------------------- b44.c:v1.01 (Jun 16, 2006) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 b44 0000:03:00.0: No usable DMA configuration, aborting ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0 disabled b44: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -5 -------------------------------- Neither the hardwire (b44) or wireless (ipw3945) NICS work. I found one unanswered post on the Xen list from April 2006 that describes my problem exactly. The poster "Woody" has identical hardware, but was complaining of the problem with a "xen patched 2.6.16 kernel". Is this problem still plaguing the latest 2.6.18 kernels? One of the main reasons I replaced my FC5 installation with FC6 was to gain use of the Xen native virtualization using the VT extensions of the Core Duo processors. Without networking, however, this capability is of limited use! Thanks for any help/suggestions. --Cal Webster _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users