Re: shared irqs and freebsd

Shared irq's are a hardware and motherboard issue, not a operating system issue. You have to be able to setup your hardware NOT to use shared IRQ's if you can.

This has been a problem on PC's since the first IBM PC rolled out, and still continues today. That is why special multiport cards were created to manage multiple resources on a single card/interrupt. In the dark ages that meant multiple port serial cards to run terminals on, etc.

-Derek


At 10:29 AM 2/28/2006, gahn wrote:
Hi:

How goes FreeBSD deal with shared irqs? Looks like
FreeBSD could only work with two nic's (the same exact
type).

I am running 5.4 and trying to install three or four
cards (the same exact type) in one machine.

Thanks

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