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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