Subject: Re: DLink 4-Port Ethernet Card
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/16/1999 13:26:52
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:37:28PM -0400, Brad Spencer wrote:
>
> A quick question about these.... I presume that NetBSD sees this card as
> four 'deX' network devices?? Is/Was there any problems with the NetBSD
Yes.
> drivers and such a set up?? I presume that it shares one interrupt
> accros all four controllers.
>
The Dlink on my Asus P2B gets an irq per deX. I guess, depending on BIOS,
and what else use interrups in the machine, some irq could be shared.
Irq sharing is allowed for PCI, this is not a problem.
--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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