> > I changed the NIC to another PCI slot that I had skipped. Either the PCI > slots are read in sequence, or the PCI slot my NIC was occupying was > damaged. Due to problems with my system which were solved by moving cards to a different location I would like to ask in general - because I assume that each manufacture may do something differently - how are PCI slots read on a motherboard?
Does each slot receive an individual address or do slots share addresses? Assuming that there is no sound card or video card on the mother board what other devices that are standard would be have interrupts that could interfer with the interrupts on the slots? I recall reading numerous places that the interrupt on most cards were hardware or software chainable how does this coinside with fixed interrupt address on the mother board? Note if one can change interrupt address to a card by either action then the slot could not have a fixed address implying that movement of the card from one slot to another would accomplish nothing but since movement solved the problem and the slot in my case was not corrupted that would imply that each slot had fixed addresses. This is not logically consistant. Thank Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
