[Asterisk-Users] Multiple HFC-PCI cards in mixed modes (TE+NT) won't work!...

[Francesco Peeters]

On Sat, November 26, 2005 23:19, Francesco Peeters said:
> On Fri, November 25, 2005 18:44, Francesco Peeters said:
>> On Fri, November 25, 2005 9:29, Kristof Hardy said:
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>
> Well, so far not good! * really seems to have problems with that second
> card!  :-(
>
> When I have it run it's own clock, neither card works (probably because
> both cards have the same IRQ, which I simply can NOT change. I have set up
> the PCI slot IRQ's for 4,5,7 and 9, but still BOTH cards share IRQ 11 (?!)
> with the USB controller (which is set to NOT have an IRQ in the BIOS!)
>
> When I set the NT mode card for slave, the TE card works fine, and the NT
> card doesn't work beyond Layer 1 setup... (Which is logical, as it doesn't
> have a clock anymore...)
>
> When I then connect the TE clock lines (pins 55 54 and 52) to eachother,
> neither card works again, probably again because of the IRQ sharing (even
> with Florz's IRQ sharing I suspect that'll create issues)
>
> So I guess I'll have to investigate whether I can change the IRQ on at
> least one of the cards!  :-o
>
> More to come!
>

Reshuffled the cards in my machine (actually inverted the order of the PCI
cards) and problem solved!

It appears the bottom 2 slots of the MoBo share an IRQ line, period...
Now the cards have different IRQs, and both work, *with* the sync
connection in place (i.e. the NT running of the TE clock)

Brilliant!

Now to play with the dialplan and integrate a zap-channel phone (or
actually: 4 phones... <G>)

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