Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:48:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> Cc: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <200101181948.f0IJmXQ00714@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Jan 2001 10:03:09 EST." <86wvbsrjgy.fsf@lorne.arm.org>
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> > I strongly suspect its an IRQ conflict. Every problem of this sort
> > that I've seen with the A7V has been an IRQ conflict, including the
> > problem I had with my own. Specificly I had to hard set the IRQ on my
> > NIC through the PCI management section of the bios.
...
> It certainly is an IRQ conflict between the 3C905B NIC and the promise
> controller. I could install and reboot just fine with the NIC
> removed.
Er, folks, no. You can share IRQs just fine with PCI. You don't have
"IRQ conflicts" just because two devices are driving the same interrupt.
There are plenty of other possibilites for trouble, but having the same
IRQ is not in and of itself going to do this.
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