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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:08:21 -0700
From:      "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, Scot Elliott <scot@planet-three.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 Intel Ethernet cards
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980724150821.0346d100@ccsales.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980724140733.02278@cpl.net>
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The assignments are not exact in PCI, I wish they would alter that part of
the spec and offer new BIOS's...

At 02:07 PM 7/24/98 -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote:
>> Nope - just sling them both in and the PCI stuff seems to do everything
>> else.  Magic eh.  The only thing I found was that it's not obvious which
>> interface is fxp0 and which is fxp1 - seems that the one with the lowest
>> IRQ is fxp0 and the other is fxp1.  And the IRQ seems to depend on which
>> PCI slot the card is in.
>
>That is the way PCI works. But, if you want the cards on specific IRQ's, w/o
>switching slots, you should be able to manually set it in your motherboards
>BIOS. I don't remember what "category?" its under in the BIOS, PCI
>something. :)
>
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