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

[Remco Barendse]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Matt wrote:

> Hi folks.. just a few weeks ago I wrote this to someone else:
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> We have several 2900s in production as VoIP servers.. no lockups.
> On every server I go into the BIOS and:
>
> * Disable USB
> * Disabled uneeded things like Parallel, Serial
> * Put ETH0 on a seperate IRQ from the Digium card
>
> And everything's fine.  Dell's do NOT have to share IRQs... go into your
> BIOS and change them
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>
> And this is still true.  However, we recently got a 2950 to use as a VoIP
> server with a digium 4 port TDM2400 (I believe) analog card.   Well wouldn't
> you know.... the Dell BIOS is showing NIC1 AND NIC2 AND Digium Card sharing
> the same IRQ.  No matter what I change one of them two, the other two
> follow.   I've tried moving the Digium card to the other PCI slot and the
> IRQ problem still exists.      I talked to Dell technical support and they
> said "oh all our new machines share IRQs like that, the way you are trying
> to do it is archaic".  What?!?!   The Dell tech guy kept saying that I can
> define an IRQ in Linux, and I kept telling him that I need two unique (not
> virtual) IRQs.. one for the NIC and one for the Digium card.  He said "yeah
> we've had other calls about Digium cards in these servers not working".
> ARG!    Now I'm in a real quandry.

Lol, see my replies to the thread.  This crappy Dell shit always shares 
irq's.

For my next servers I'll be ordering Arima mainboards I think and assemble 
the things myself again.