Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:34:46 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Tony Arcieri <tarcieri@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ problems with PCI NIC in Multia Message-ID: <20010620213446.A56591@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <15152.59586.75593.625132@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400 References: <20010620114122.U77931-100000@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu> <15152.59586.75593.625132@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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. Quite possible. > 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: the Netelligent dual port works fine on a x86 box, I have one in my firewall. > 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.. Hehe ;-) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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