From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 09:31:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B49D37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E7643FBD for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <305LGHC4>; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:31:24 -0400 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Emre Bastuz' , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:31:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Multiple Quad Ethernet Cards in one PC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:31:25 -0000 From: Emre Bastuz [mailto:info@emre.de] > > Hi All, > > thanks for the quick responses! > > Zitat von Don Bowman : > > i would guess that perhaps the BIOS doesn't set up that > > many PCI-PCI bridges. > > > > does it show in pciconf -l? > nope. Only two cards show up: > You need another BIOS. Either newer for this platform, or another PC to put it on. Or write some code to allocate the PCI resources [mem, interrupt, etc]. you see how pcib3 has none of its children setup? It appears as none2@pci3:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x10021186 rev=0x14 hdr=0x00 i'm only speculating here. or perhaps 2 6-port cars instead of 3 4-port cards :) We're using 6-port GE cards from silicom, they work ok. --don