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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:32:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD-smp <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Interrupt delivery on SMP 760MPX board 4.5-R/4-S
Message-ID:  <20020401163041.F40027-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020401133528.A93211@freebsd.org>

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I'm not sure what the problem you're having is, but on my dual PII 333
sometime between 4.4-RELEASE and 4.5-RELEASE, my dual channel dec21140a
based card stopped working properly. It was getting detected and I could
ifconfig both interfaces, but only one interface would actually work.

Ken

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Coleman Kane wrote:

> Hello,
> Perhaps someone here can help me. I recently purchased a Tyan Tiger MPX
> (S2466N) dual-athlon board, with on-board 3c920 NIC. I have been having
> difficulty getting multiple Tulip (DC2114x) NICs to work with this board.
> First, I had ordered a DLink DFE-570TX quad-channel DC21143 board to run
> on the server. Using both the dc and de drivers, I have beeing experiencing
> issues where the device doesn't appear to be delivering interrupts properly.
> The card does work perfectly fine on my UP EPoX 8K7A+ (AMD-760) motherboard
> at home. Thinking that it was perhaps a compatibility issue between the board
> and the bridged card (PCI-PCI DC21152 bridge), I went out and got four
> Asante FriendlyNET DC21140AF NICs for the system (cards I use at home). The
> problems persist. Anyway, I am not extremely familiar with the inner-workings
> of the MP spec and APIC-based hardware, and am at a loss as to what is going
> on. Unfortualtely, this board doesn't provide many PCI tweaking features
> in the BIOS, like Slot-INTPIN assignments, IRQ-PIN assignment, etc...
> BTW, this is running 4-stable, which I upgraded to from 4.5-R, to get the
> ATAPI and AMD768 support. 4.5-R experienced the bad behavior, though. I have
> the mptable, dmesg, and pciconf -l output if anyone could help me with this.
>
> --
> coleman
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