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

[Stefan Nürnberger]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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? :\
> 

I also ran into this alignment exception problem (with a PCIe x1 card). 
I removed the card and am now waiting for the patched firmware. The USB 
still works fine when the card is removed. Are you trying some USB 2.0 
only device? The PowerStation USB ports are v1.1 only.

Stefan

> --jarod
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