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

[Jarod Wilson]

Stefan Nürnberger wrote:
> 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.

Just trying to plug in a usb keyboard and mouse. Only one port out of 
four is actually functional right now. Doesn't matter when I plug 
devices in either, its like they're simply dead -- device doesn't get 
power, doesn't register in either the firmware or once up and running a 
kernel.

--jarod