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

[Matt]

We'll see what happens on Monday.  I e-mailed several people in Dell who
were involved in this sale and all assured me it would be fine and work.
Needless to say, I am not happy at all right now.

On 2/10/07, Andrew D Kirch <trelane at trelane.net> wrote:
>
> 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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