Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:42:51 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 problem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980220154033.4879A-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980220145148.17705G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> Two PCI ones? Odd, PCI is supposed to arbitrate that. Sounds like a > firmware bug. Yup. The EtherExpress setup program told me the Windows drivers could handle shared IRQ's. Apparantly, the FreeBSD drivers don't. Not that I blame FreeBSD, there is no need for shared IRQ's(usually) for network cards. > set the IRQs for the PCI bus. Took a bit to figure out which slot was > which but you knew where everything was. I looked in the BIOS and saw nothing. On my relatively new workstation, but Award BIOS, you can manually set the IRQ's, or do it automatically. I think the motherboard is just crap, I think it may have a bad cache. It has a bad something, because I cannot compile a world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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