[asterisk-users] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Sharing NIC IRQ with Digium Card

Andrew D Kirch trelane at trelane.net
Sat Feb 10 14:26:44 MST 2007


Matt wrote:
> 
>     try booting with APIC and ACPI disabled?
> 
> 
> 
> ARG.  You're going around in circles as bad as the Dell tech.   If the 
> IRQs are being shared and setup in BIOS.. no amount of booting with ACPI 
> disabled, or trying to set the IRQ within Linux is going to help.    At 
> this point, the BIOS is overriding and throwing the device onto that 
> IRQ.   If the device is physically being put onto an IRQ by the BIOS, 
> then no amount of software manipulation is going to change it.   If I am 
> wrong, someone please let me know.   As I understand it, ACPI will just 
> let you use the extended (>15) IRQs.. which is really just IRQ 
> sharing... the problem here is that the BIOS still has them setup as 
> shared IRQs.
> 
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You've hit the point where I demanded an RMA and refund for my 830.

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