I purchased a NetGear WPN511 cardbus wireless adapter (atheros chipset)
yesterday. The card uses irq 10, as does the firewire port and ethernet
port (fxp0) on my Dell Inspiron 8100. The laptop is running FreeBSD 7.2
Release (generic kernel).
When I bootup the laptop with the wireless adapter in
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:51:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
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Are interrupt storms a problem? Do I need to worry about them? If
so, is there anything I can do about them?
Have run across interrupt storms for the first time myself last night.
Am thinking they are from interrupt sources
My source of interrupt storms was caused by a bad SATA cable. Installed
a new VIA 6421-based SATA card (selected because it was only $15) and
two new hard drives for the purpose of copying files off two older
drives. New drives were detected but ad4 did not work when ad6 did.
Swapped drives and
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:30:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I'm not telling that you are wrong that cable produced this, but i
can't find any explanation for that.
One two-port controller card, two drives, two cables. Interrupt storms
move from one port to the other with the suspect
