[Asterisk-Users] Re: TE410P not Interrupting

[Mark F. Vickers]

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <4acda1b40412302118791d6f1e at mail.gmail.com>,
> Eric Bishop <asterisk.eric at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Just got a brand new server and a Digium TE410P. I get the sequential
>>(knight rider) lights before loading the zaptel driver. As soon as I
>>load the driver all loghts go off. It appears the card is not
>>generating interrupts.
>>
>>[root at test ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
>>          CPU0
>> 0:  111005341    IO-APIC-edge  timer
>> 1:          9    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>> 8:          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
>> 9:          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
>>12:         66    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>>14:       7870    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
>>185:          0   IO-APIC-level  t4xxp
>>193:      26141   IO-APIC-level  cciss0
>>201:    1139611   IO-APIC-level  eth0
>>NMI:          0
>>LOC:  111010062
>>ERR:          0
>>MIS:          0
>>[root at test ~]#
>>
>>Have also tried replacing the card, changinf PCI slots and messing
>>with the BIOS all with the same result. If anyone can help I would be
>>very grateful..
> 
> 
> I have found this on one particular server (a 1U industrial server),
> and it was traced to a faulty backplane not connecting the IRQ line.
> 
> As a test, try replacing the TE410P with a different PCI card that you
> know works in another computer, e.g. an Ethernet card. See if it
> initializes and generates interrupts. If not, then your problem is
> on the PCI bus somewhere.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony