Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Tony Arcieri <tarcieri@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IRQ problems with PCI NIC in Multia Message-ID: <15152.59586.75593.625132@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010620114122.U77931-100000@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu> References: <20010620114122.U77931-100000@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu>
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Tony Arcieri writes: > I'm attempting to use a dual port ThunderLAN NIC in a Multia with FreeBSD > 4.3. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to get assigned any resources > whatsoever: > > tl0: <Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Dual Port> irq 0 at device 0.0 on pci1 > tl0: couldn't map ports/memory > device_probe_and_attach: tl0 attach returned 6 > tl0: <Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Dual Port> irq 0 at device 1.0 on pci1 > tl0: couldn't map ports/memory > device_probe_and_attach: tl0 attach returned 6 > > Any ideas? I suspect that the SRM console firmware (the alpha's equivalent of a BIOS) never setup the card. It may be that it doesn't look behind ppb's on the Multia. Anyway, I'm not sure if this failure to setup the card is a platform (Multia) thing, or if other versions of the SRM on different types of alphas would ignore the card. FWIW, you really don't want to be running a dual-port nic on a multia. If you're after bandwidth, the multia doesn't have sufficient memory bandwidth to drive a single 100Mb nic, much less two. If you're after failover, then, well, the Multia is the weakest link here.. Sorry.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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