From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 20 12:34:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.xs4all.nl (smtp3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4A837B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp3.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17183; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5KJYkx56609; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:34:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:34:46 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Tony Arcieri , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ problems with PCI NIC in Multia Message-ID: <20010620213446.A56591@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010620114122.U77931-100000@rylos.atmos.colostate.edu> <15152.59586.75593.625132@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15152.59586.75593.625132@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Tony Arcieri writes: > > I'm attempting to use a dual port ThunderLAN NIC in a Multia with FreeBSD > > 4.3. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to get assigned any resources > > whatsoever: > > > > tl0: irq 0 at device 0.0 on pci1 > > tl0: couldn't map ports/memory > > device_probe_and_attach: tl0 attach returned 6 > > tl0: irq 0 at device 1.0 on pci1 > > tl0: couldn't map ports/memory > > device_probe_and_attach: tl0 attach returned 6 > > > > Any ideas? > > I suspect that the SRM console firmware (the alpha's equivalent of a > BIOS) never setup the card. It may be that it doesn't look behind > ppb's on the Multia. Quite possible. > Anyway, I'm not sure if this failure to setup the card is a platform > (Multia) thing, or if other versions of the SRM on different types of > alphas would ignore the card. FWIW: the Netelligent dual port works fine on a x86 box, I have one in my firewall. > FWIW, you really don't want to be running a dual-port nic on a > multia. If you're after bandwidth, the multia doesn't have sufficient > memory bandwidth to drive a single 100Mb nic, much less two. If > you're after failover, then, well, the Multia is the weakest link > here.. Hehe ;-) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message