Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:34:05 -0700 (MST) From: Les Biffle <les@ns3.safety.net> To: geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com (Geoff Buckingham) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4? Message-ID: <200006211434.HAA70138@ns3.safety.net> In-Reply-To: <20000621145820.A20728@chuggalug.clues.com> from Geoff Buckingham at "Jun 21, 2000 02:58:20 pm"
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Hi Geoff, > Excuse me if I have missed something obviouse ( I havn't had a lot to > do with PC hardware recently.) Is your 'riser' a customer part of the > board or something that just plugs into an existing PCI slot. If the > later I **ASSUME** (and may be wrong) that it is a PCI to PCI bridge > itself. It's an assembly provided by the manufacturer, and plugs perpendicularly into two in-line edge connectors on the motherboard. Those connectors are the same type connector as PCI connectors, but have more signals on them, making them non-standard. The riser card has two PCI slots, an ISA slot and a Realtek 8129B NIC on it, but no bridge chip. Since the two PCI-looking slots on the M/B are having to deliver the PCI signals, ISA signals, and the request and grant signals for each PCI slot and NIC, I must assume that neither is a "real" PCI slot, and dare not try a NIC in one. My "dream" riser would have a bridge for its slots, of course. Or my dream teensy M/B would have 3 10/100 NICs and a single PCI slot. Anybody know of one? > Leading to the questions does the fxp work in the PCI slot without the > riser? The 3COM cyclone devices don't work in the riser either, leading me to suspect a poor design by my supplier. Slow NICs (the Realteks) and WAN cards from Sangoma seem to work fine in either riser slot. > Are others successfully using that PCI-PCI bridge with an fxp When squeezed, the manufacturer admits that there might have been a trouble report on this once upon a time. They're sending a different M/B and riser for us to try. Regards, -Les -- Les Biffle Community Service... Just Say NO! (480) 778-0177 les@safety.net http://www.les.safety.net/ Network Safety, 7802 E Gray Rd Ste 500, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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