Re: Problems with Network Adapters

["John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>]

Alternately, (and especially if the ISA card is NOT plug and play...), you
may have to go into the PCI bios and 'reserve' the IRQ used by the ISA card.
The mechanism varies with the BIOS involved, some you set the IRQ to 'N'
(Award), others to "ISA" (AMI/Intel)...

-jrp

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Dahlin <JDahlin@appiangraphics.com>
To: Mailing List Recipients <pci-sig-request@znyx.com>
Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 2:06 PM
Subject: RE: Problems with Network Adapters


>Terje,
>What are the symptoms when it "dies"?
>
>I have seen two boards using the same interrupt (one a graphics board
>and the other a network board) and when the system booted there was a
>message from the network card's software about a problem with the
>interrupts.  We speculated that the network card's interrupt service
>routine wasn't written properly and when it saw the interrupt from the
>graphics card it was confused and crashed.  When we moved the graphics
>card to a different slot so that it used a different interrupt the
>problem went away.
>
>I don't know if this fits what you are seeing.  It is just something
>that I have come across.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff Dahlin
>Appian Graphics
>18047 NE 68th St., Suite B-100
>Redmond, WA  98052
>(425) 882-2020
> FAX 882-8618
>
>
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: Terje Melsom, VMETRO[SMTP:terje@vmetro.no]
>> Reply To: terje@vmetro.no
>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 1998 10:56 AM
>> To: Mailing List Recipients
>> Subject: Problems with Network Adapters
>>
>> We have observed a problem when plugging  PCI boards into PCs with ISA
>> network adapters. With several PCI boards (several vendors with
>> different PCI silicon) the ISA network card dies. Does someone have an
>> explaination for this ?
>>
>> --
>> Terje Melsom
>> VMETRO ASA
>> Brynsveien 5
>> N-0667 Oslo, Norway
>> Phone: +47 2210 6090
>> Fax:   +47 2210 6202
>> Email: terje@vmetro.no
>>
>>
>>
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