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From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Message-ID: <E4H0xw.HLs@ora.de>
Organization: Verlag O'Reilly
References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5br088$e5s@verdi.nethelp.no> <5bsc1d$hg4@panix2.panix.com> <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no> <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:08:20 GMT
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In <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>In article <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no>,
>Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
>>Um, the SMC uses INTA and INTB - it is of course up to the BIOS to map
>>these. The Cogent and Znyx cards *only* use INTA, so there's no way to
>>map those (two or four) ports to more than one IRQ.

>*Sigh* Compliant PCI devices are *not* supposed to hardwire their PCI INT.

Uhm, how exactly is what Steinar describes not PCI compliant?

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Christoph Badura

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