Re: Osicom 123400-21 40port card
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.tulip.general |
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jason Marshall wrote: > > > > Curious: this board appears to have an EEPROM on all ports. Could you > > > > please confirm with 'tulip-diag -e'? That would prevent the IRQ > > > > correction code from triggering. ... > Is there any way this can be accomodated? Or is IRQ sharing impossible > when you have four EEPROMs on one board? There is no problem with four EEPROMs. That's a better configuration than the usual setup. The problem is that the driver uses the missing EEPROM on ports 1-3 to trigger a work-around for a common BIOS bug: the BIOS does not correctly record which devices are using which IRQs. > > You don't need to do anything if your BIOS doesn't have the > > PCI-bridge-IRQ bug. But in this case you seem to have that bug. Only > > one of the four ports will have a working IRQ. > > It does seem that all four of the IRQ's work, though. Have you tested all four ports? If they all work, you don't have the bug. > But I am curious about what my options are. I've got at least a few of > these cards, and it would be nice to use them all in the same box (that > was the purpose behind buying them) for a 12- or 16-port router at our > network's border. That should work. Routing is, however, beyond the scope of this list. -- 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