Re: Shared PCI IRQ Lockups in 2.2pre4

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:50:18 +1300


On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:09:23AM -0500, Dave Harden wrote:

> I have a computer that has 2 Intel EEPro100 Ethernet cards and an
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller on the PCI bus. The bios
> unfortunately provides no way to hard code the interupts on any of
> the devices, and procedes to allocate them in the following
> fashion: [notice shared int 10]

Most BIOSes don't give you much control over this stuff... you can
try marking the IRQ reserved for non-ISA pnp or whatever your bios
calls it and it will move the cards resorces elsewhere. Over several
boots you can juggle them about a little...

[...]

> This output was produced under 2.0.36. I have been unable to get
> the machine to boot under 2.2pre4.

What does it do under 2.2pre4 then? Have you tried pre4-ac4?

-cw

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