Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:04:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 905 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030110338.17844C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029222718.29067A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > I have a slight difficulty with my brand spankin' new 3C905 PCI Ethernet > card. I used the DOS util to set ip up with IRQ 10 and disable full > duplex. The bootup no longer complains about it being setup as full > duplex, but it insists that it's on IRQ 11. This is a slight problem, > sinve vga0 uses IRQ11 also. I believe this is the source of a few system > crashes before I took the time to look through dmesg. Any ideas as the > why this is happening? You need to instruct your BIOS that IRQ11 is in use and to use something else. The PCI card settings are obtained automatically from the PCI subsystem and are not adjustable. That or swap the position of the video and ethernet card, or ensure that your video card really does stomp IRQ11. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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