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Re: [afnog]FreeBSD problem interface again!!!
- To: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>, afnog at afnog.org
- Subject: Re: [afnog]FreeBSD problem interface again!!!
- From: "Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:06:39 +002 GMT
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> So I am guessing that these are PCI cards, and the system BIOS is
> allocating the interrupts? Can you please confirm.
Yes.
>
> > Are you saying I should disable some other stuff like printer
> > port or serial port to make those IRQs available to the interfaces?
> > Actually IRQ 5 is available but none of the interfaces gets it. IS
> > there a way of making an interface get a specific IRQ in FreeBSD?
>
> In many BIOSes, you can allocate specific IRQs to PCI slots. But that
> should not be necessary. If it's an ISA card then you allocate IRQs on
> the card itself (in the case of 3com cards using the DOS utility
> supplied)
I tried to allocate IRQ 5 through the BIOS but the card still got 10.
>
> > What happens now is that the
> > internet interface works only for a few minutes and then stops and I
> > can only get it going by doing a /etc/netstart. Could it be another
> > kind of problem?
>
> Yes, it could in principle be any of the problems I listed before.
> Have you tried replacing your xl0 card with another identical one?
> Which exact model of card are you using? Can you show the dmesg output
> which detects it? I seem to remember that some older 3com cards had
> problems, but it depends on the exact model number.
I will try to get the dmesg output when at the server. The 3com
card I think is a 3com 905 but will have to confirm. It first had a
Realtek based card which was giving the same problem and then I
substituted for the current 3com.
Cheers,
>
> Brian.
Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq
Maputo - Mozambique
Phone : 258-82-300392
e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz
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