RE: Multiple Quad Ethernet Cards in one PC?

From: Don Bowman (don_at_sandvine.com)
Date: 07/23/03

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    To: 'Emre Bastuz' <info@emre.de>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:31:23 -0400
    
    

    From: Emre Bastuz [mailto:info@emre.de]
    >
    > Hi All,
    >
    > thanks for the quick responses!
    >
    > Zitat von Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>:
    > > i would guess that perhaps the BIOS doesn't set up that
    > > many PCI-PCI bridges.
    > >
    > > does it show in pciconf -l?
    > nope. Only two cards show up:
    >

    You need another BIOS. Either newer for this platform,
    or another PC to put it on.
    Or write some code to allocate the PCI resources [mem, interrupt,
    etc].

    you see how pcib3 has none of its children setup? It appears
    as
    none2@pci3:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x10021186 rev=0x14
    hdr=0x00

    i'm only speculating here.

    or perhaps 2 6-port cars instead of 3 4-port cards :)
    We're using 6-port GE cards from silicom, they work ok.

    --don
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