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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!inquo!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple SMC ethernet cards Date: 10 Mar 1996 18:21:56 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 20 Sender: se@Sisyphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4hv6k4$6h0@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <313B1B78.7DE14518@kampai.euronet.nl> <4hqbnr$msn@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sisyphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Bcc: se In article <4hqbnr$msn@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: |> Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> writes: |> |> > When using two SMC ethernet cards in the same machines, is it |> > possible for them to share an IRQ? |> |> No. ... except in case of the DEC 21x4x based PCI Ethernet cards from SMC, which happily will share an IRQ ... But this is more bus feature than a card feature: ISA and VLB generally don't support shared interrupts, EISA and PCI does. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>