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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).

-- 
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