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

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Bosch
Remco Barendse wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Matt wrote: > >> Hi folks.. just a few weeks ago I wrote this to someone else: >> >> We have several 2900s in production as VoIP servers.. no lockups. >> On every server I go into the BIOS and: >> >> * Disable USB >> * Disabled

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

2007-02-10 Thread Matt
Well, I've been e-mailing back and forth with a Dell techrep. (This is in addition to the e-mail I sent to the sales guys, who are not in today). The techrep basically said: Your TDM2400P card is only PCI and not PCIe; and, is therfore not compatible. According to him, and he backed everything u

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

2007-02-10 Thread 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt wrote: > > try booting with APIC and

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

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew D Kirch
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 B

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

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Andres wrote: try booting with APIC and ACPI disabled? Thats right. I have never seen a shared IRQ with Dell servers using APIC. A RHL ES3 by default enables APIC so I have never even had to fiddle around with it. Andres. ___ --Bandwidth and Co

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

2007-02-10 Thread Matt
Thats right. I have never seen a shared IRQ with Dell servers using APIC. A RHL ES3 by default enables APIC so I have never even had to fiddle around with it. Possibly because you are using virtual IRQs... hence none of them appear to be shared in Linux. Check the BIOS to see what's really

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

2007-02-10 Thread Matt
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 an

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

2007-02-10 Thread Remco Barendse
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Andres wrote: try booting with APIC and ACPI disabled? Thats right. I have never seen a shared IRQ with Dell servers using APIC. A RHL ES3 by default enables APIC so I have never even had to fiddle around with it. Ofcourse you don't. But simply because APIC makes y

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

2007-02-10 Thread Andres
try booting with APIC and ACPI disabled? Thats right. I have never seen a shared IRQ with Dell servers using APIC. A RHL ES3 by default enables APIC so I have never even had to fiddle around with it. Andres. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provid

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

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Matt wrote: For my next servers I'll be ordering Arima mainboards I think and assemble the things myself again. I'm thinking about going with MBX.The problem with this is we were replacing an IBM server that had the same problem. The Dell Techs all assured me this is how

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

2007-02-10 Thread Matt
For my next servers I'll be ordering Arima mainboards I think and assemble the things myself again. I'm thinking about going with MBX.The problem with this is we were replacing an IBM server that had the same problem. The Dell Techs all assured me this is how all the new machines work.

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

2007-02-10 Thread Remco Barendse
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Matt wrote: Hi folks.. just a few weeks ago I wrote this to someone else: 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 E

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

2007-02-10 Thread Matt
Hi folks.. just a few weeks ago I wrote this to someone else: 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 Digi