Re: Osicom 123400-21 40port card
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jason Marshall wrote: > > > which is a 4-port card with 4x 21140-AE, > > > > That makes it an older board. > > 1996 is stamped on the board, so you're right on the money *8-) > > > and two Lattice PLSI2032 (???) > > > > That's an FPGA part number. I don't know what a FPGA would be doing on > > a four port NIC... do you see other transceiver chips? > > Haha, beats me -- There are also four "SEEQ" NQ80C269633's, but I don't > know if they're what you're after. At least there's four of those. That's likely a Seeq (now owned by LSI Logic) transceiver made on the 33rd week of 1996. What is the correct part number? 80222 is possible. > Should I give the new 0.95 version a go? Yes. > > Errrmmm, no. The driver actually goes to a great deal of effort to > > reverse the common BIOS bug that incorrectly claims that the devices > > behind a bridge are on separate IRQs. The driver finds the first port > > and copies the IRQ to the other ports. > > This board lists its interfaces bass-ackward. It never occured to me that > that might be an issue. What is the full driver detection message? > On the machine were all this stuff is working right, the MAC's are listed > in ascending order... Should I try the -DREVERSE_PROBE_ORDER thing? Is the driver built-in or a module? -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ tulip mailing list, [email protected] To change to digest mode or unsubscribe visit http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/tulip