From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 17 08:40:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19153 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19057 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20873; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:36:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "crab.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020871; Tue Mar 17 08:36:34 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by crab.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id IAA00883; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:36:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199803171636.IAA00883@crab.whistle.com> Subject: Re: PCI & multiport FastEthernet cards In-Reply-To: from "sbabkin@dcn.att.com" at "Mar 17, 98 09:03:27 am" To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:36:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes: | The second question is related. Do those 4-port FastEthernet cards | use separate interrupt per each port ? Is it possible to make | them using one interrupt ? This is a function of the BIOS, setup your BIOS to use only one interrupt but why would you want to do that. Here we use 3 quad ethernet cards in a few servers. I just setup the BIOS not to use the interrupts that are being used with ISA and then let it sort things out. I did have some trouble with early BIOS's on the ASUS XP55T2P4 motherboards but the newer ones work just fine. The problem was that with all the cards in the machine the BIOS would hang at PNP initialization. Another issue I've had with the Adaptec cards 2143 based & Quad 10/100 cards is that I need to do a tcpdump on the interface to get the card to work. The scenario is - ping to host (doesn't work) - tcpdump -i - the ping now starts to works. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message