[powerstation-owners] Alignment Exception w/NetXen adapter installed

[Jarod Wilson]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Adrian Reber wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> Today's fun-with-a-powerstation issue: I dropped a NetXen 10GbE NIC in 
>>> (pci-e 8x card), and now I'm not even able to get out of openfirmware:
[...]
>>> ( 600 ) Alignment Exception [ e101fc8 ]
[...]
>> You need a firmware update. But the update is not an official and hard
>> to get.
>>
>> The card will work if you plug it into the 16x slot. But then you have
>> to remove the graphics card of course.
> 
> For now, I've simply yanked the card. I was planning to check out 
> dual-head video, so yeah, putting it in the x16 slot won't work... :)

So I have dual-head video w/spanning desktop working now... But since 
the alignment exception hit, it seems 3/4 of my usb ports don't work 
now... Does that sound at all familiar? :\

--jarod