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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Date: 19 Jan 1997 15:26:54 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5br088$e5s@verdi.nethelp.no> <5bsc1d$hg4@panix2.panix.com> <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1947 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5643 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34255 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5206 In article <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no>, Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote: >[Thor Lancelot Simon] > >| >There are two-port cards available from SMC and ZNYX, and four-port cards >| >available from Cogent and ZNYX. The SMC cards use two INTs, the ZNYX and >| >Cogent cards only use one INT. >| >| That's not necessarily correct. It's all dependent upon how your BIOS (on >| the PC) or operating system configures the PCI bridge and the Ethernet chips >| behind it. > >Um, the SMC uses INTA and INTB - it is of course up to the BIOS to map >these. The Cogent and Znyx cards *only* use INTA, so there's no way to >map those (two or four) ports to more than one IRQ. *Sigh* Compliant PCI devices are *not* supposed to hardwire their PCI INT. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/