Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:59:19 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What 100mbps ethernet card(s) to use w/SMP? Message-ID: <19970611105919.30843@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199706111549.KAA05815@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 10:49:43AM -0500 References: <19970611081431.47921@luke.pmr.com> <199706111549.KAA05815@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 10:49:43AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 10:47:04PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > > > > > > Interrupts simply aren't working correctly on your machine. It's not > > > a problem with the cards you're plugging in, it's a problem with interrupt > > > (perhaps APIC) configuration. > > > > Any idea why it would only effect the ethernet adapters and not the > > scsi adapters? Are there any BIOS setup things to check for that > > might cause this? > > > I had a really wierd networking problem on a new system last week > at work. The system had an Intel ethernet adaptor, and was basically > a typical PC. I had to reset the bios from scratch and things started > working... I have NO idea as to what was going on, but two PCI devices > were being mapped to the same IRQ before when the problem manifested > itself. When the problem went away, all of the devices had seperate > IRQs. Well, I don't have any overlapping of IRQs on this system. (I am running another system with an Intel enet card, 2 3940's & an NCR 810 where the B channel of one of the 3940's is on the same IRQ (9) as the enet card that is working just fine (this a single Pentium 166MHz system running 2.2.2R). -- Bob Willcox Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made bob@luke.pmr.com President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Austin, TX -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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