Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:38:48 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shared irqs and freebsd Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060228133343.0263a060@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20060228162920.99325.qmail@web52111.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060228162920.99325.qmail@web52111.mail.yahoo.com>
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Shared irq's are a hardware and motherboard issue, not a operating system
issue. You have to be able to setup your hardware NOT to use shared IRQ's
if you can.
This has been a problem on PC's since the first IBM PC rolled out, and
still continues today. That is why special multiport cards were created to
manage multiple resources on a single card/interrupt. In the dark ages
that meant multiple port serial cards to run terminals on, etc.
-Derek
At 10:29 AM 2/28/2006, gahn wrote:
>Hi:
>
>How goes FreeBSD deal with shared irqs? Looks like
>FreeBSD could only work with two nic's (the same exact
>type).
>
>I am running 5.4 and trying to install three or four
>cards (the same exact type) in one machine.
>
>Thanks
>
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