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 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 >> ------------------------ >> >> 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.
Are those any good? I've had spotty luck with server boards. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
