From owner-freebsd-net Wed Nov 3 6:56:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5621814C4C for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 06:56:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA25558; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991103095403.01fd5b10@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:54:03 -0500 To: "HIGHCALIBER.COM - Andre" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Third Ethernet card "fxp2" Cc: In-Reply-To: <000f01bf2600$1cc521c0$010a0a0a@pavilion> References: <381a2d12.436676377@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:34 AM 11/3/99 -0500, Andre Chang wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks, > >There are no IDE devices in the machine and there is a 7860 chip on the >motherboard. I finally resolved the problem by moving the card from slot 1 >to slot 4 (PCI) I believe that there must have been some IRQ conflict. I'll >have to look that over again as I would like to put a scsi controller in the >free PCI slot. Not all PCI slots are DMA capable, and there is usually one that forces you to share an IRQ. In your board's BIOS, try turning off the auto assign of IRQs to the PCI slots, and instead assign some sane IRQs. Since you have no IDE make disable them in your BIOS as well as assigning DMA channels to the IDE controllers. 5,10,11,14,15 should be safe to use. >Does anyone know if the fxp driver supports IRQ sharing?. with the newer >motherboards I've come across a lot of IRQ's assigned to more than one slot. Perhaps there is no basis in it, but I was under the impression that where possible, avoid IRQ sharing, although it should work. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message