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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!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: 23 Jan 1997 19:01:59 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5c8u5n$o9s@panix2.panix.com> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no> <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> <E4H0xw.HLs@ora.de> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1991 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5701 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34447 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5228 In article <E4H0xw.HLs@ora.de>, Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote: >In <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: > >>In article <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no>, >>Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote: >>>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. > >Uhm, how exactly is what Steinar describes not PCI compliant? Do I not recall correctly that the host BIOS or operating system is supposed to be able to specify the INT for any device? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/