Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 12:27:52 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Multiple de NIC's dectected, not used Message-ID: <199702021127.MAA11440@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970201094515.439A-100000@harlie> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at "Feb 1, 97 09:55:56 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Eric J. Schwertfeger writes: > I'm trying to get two PCI 10BaseT nics to work in two of my machines, but > it only wants to use the first one. > > I've got both > > device de0 > device de1 > > in my config file, and this turns up in the log file. Note that while > there are two lines for de0, which gets used, there is only one line for > de1, which doesn't show up on an ifconfig -a. > > Feb 1 09:34:44 alexandria /kernel: de0 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17 > int a irq 9 on pci0:19 > Feb 1 09:34:44 alexandria /kernel: de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 > Ethernet address 00:20:18:50:53:a5 > Feb 1 09:34:45 alexandria /kernel: de1 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17 > int a irq 9 on pci0:20 > Feb 1 09:34:45 alexandria /kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > > This is on 2.1.5-RELEASE. > > I did check the mailing archives, and only found references to > multi-ethernet on a single card problems, at least once people got both de > lines in the config file. > > Any suggestions? Hmmm. Both your boards are being assigned IRQ 9, which I believe doesn't work under PCI either. I just don't understand how this could happen: I thought the PCI setup code in the BIOS would avoid this. Can you allocate a different IRQ to the second board? Greg
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199702021127.MAA11440>