[eepro100] Interrupts Question ...

[Aymeric BLAZY]

Hi,

Thank you for your response ... eth1, eth2 are on the same dual port card.
eth3, eth4 are 2 single card.

At 11:22 09/08/00 -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Aymeric BLAZY wrote:
>
>> I am using five eepro100 cards on a linux box that i am installing.
>> This box is running a 2.2.12 kernel on a RedHat-6.1 distribution.
>> Support of this card it's done by module with the latest revision :
>> 
>> eepro100.c:v1.10a 4/15/00 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>>   http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
>> 
>> For now i only use one of this card for installation purpose ... eth0
>> 
>> As i see, eth1, eth4, etc etc share the same IRQ.
>> I would like to know if i am about to run on IRQ problem on this box .. box
>> freeze etc etc ...
>...
>>  11:      12988          XT-PIC  eth1, eth4
>>  15:      12989          XT-PIC  eth2, eth3
>
>Is this a four-port card, or five single port cards?
>  Many x86 BIOSes have a bug when assigning IRQs behind a bus bridge, and you
>  have to test that all ports are able to raise an interrupt.
>Otherwise you should have no problem.
>
>Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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