Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:58:31 -0600 From: Eric Varsanyi <ewv@boom.bsdi.com> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: Eric Varsanyi <ewv@boom.bsdi.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboards Message-ID: <199605110358.VAA24049@boom.vars.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 May 1996 05:34:18 %2B0300." <199605110234.FAA08306@cantina.clinet.fi>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > This is only a problem if you want to run something on the other > side of a PCI-PCI bridge chip (like the SMC EtherPower 2). A properly > implemented PCI card will attach the interrupt pin on each device > >... > > ASUS doesn't seem to understand what a PCI-PCI bridge is and why > someone might want to use one. Their BIOS only detects and initializes > >I have at least 6 ASUS based routers which use SMC EtherPower 2 and ZNYX >4-port ethernet boards. One router has got 10 ports, all occupied. The >motherboard is the SIS chipset one, P90. I have got Triton II boards also, >but I'm not absolutely sure that I have tested those with multiple ports in >use yet (but they are correctly probed and both ports on EP2s are usable >alone). It must only be certain models then... the ones we've had trouble with were the P54NP4's (Neptune EISA/PCI). It isn't a BSD/OS problem, these wouldn't even run the DOS diagnostics that come with the EP2's. The I_LINE register in the second device is left programmed with apparently random values after POST (I've seen 0xfe, 0x20, and 0xff). They've probably corrected the problems in their newer boards (the Neptune is at least a couple of years old). - -Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBMZQQZjxFdSMFRIw5AQFIygP/Xc8Wm7U9fRLZ54z8TwnqvQF1v1qhHgh9 WYPUjNPAcBmktIJy0s9Sx7rlFsx/QWQHwXi+XTJCm+RuK/HbGWm2weVaKQZGDVM4 JaOWpYWjIgYnWa/FaHTTPE9/vwZbZmSc9/XSNYgikw+hXehHwn4nSSl8rIAUuABH JFaY0rMvXlA= =6MHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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