PCIe NIC detected only when booting from one SMP MP-table (every second boot)

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Hi, I have PCIe network interface card: NC375T PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter. It uses netxen_nic module. The problem is that it's detected every second boot. I noticed that the module and firmware are loaded correctly when it boots using certain SMP MP-table. When I see in journal:

found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fcdc0-0x000fcdcf

then everything works perfectly, but when i see:

found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fcd50-0x000fcd5f

the NIC is not detected, loading modules manually with

modprobe netxen_nic

doesn't bring it up.

Do you have any clue how can I force the system to boot from the working SM-table? I even don't know what these tables are. I tried every option for acpi boot parameter and a lot of related with acpi, apic, pci, pcie like:
  • acpi_force_table_verification
  • acpi_no_auto_serialize
  • acpi_apic_instance=
  • acpi_no_static_ssdt
None worked for me.
 

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