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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 1997 23:53:44 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ifconfig hang with fxp board 
Message-ID:  <199712180753.XAA03182@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Dec 1997 23:02:43 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971217230126.7664A-100000@misery.sdf.com> 

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>On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:
>
>> I just installed a new fxp board in my 2.2.5 system
>> 
>>    ifconfig fxp0 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>> 
>> hangs the OS. Even the virtual consoles don't work.
>> Does this board need to be initialized with a vendor utility to set
>> interrupts, etc?
>
>  No, your motherboard gives PCI cards IRQs to use.

   True, but the motherboard might bogusly assign an IRQ that is in use by
a legacy ISA card. The PCI BIOS usually has a machanism for reserving those
ISA interrupts so that they aren't wrongly used for PCI cards.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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