Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:22:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:22:45 -0500 Received: from CPE-61-9-149-253.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.149.253]:20866 "EHLO elektra.higherplane.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:22:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:23:08 +1100 From: john slee To: Jules Bean Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't use high IRQs on ISA ethernet card Message-ID: <20010309042308.B1533@higherplane.net> In-Reply-To: <20010308145142.A7572@blueberry.jellybean.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010308145142.A7572@blueberry.jellybean.co.uk>; from jules@jellybean.co.uk on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:51:42PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:51:42PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > So, in summary, what seems to me to be happening is that the high IRQs > (9-13, say) appear to be unavailable for use by ISA cards on my > machine, at the moment. The kernel allows ISA cards to claim these > IRQs (and the cards then show up in /proc/interrupts) but they don't > actually seem to get the interrupts. I don't know if the BIOS is > stealing them, or the kernel, or what. my beloved gravis ultrasound classic (ISA, non-pnp) works fine in 2.2.x and 2.4.x, with io=0x260 irq=11 dma=7. *hug gravis* also my dec etherworks3 (different machine) seems to be working perfectly well in 2.2.x with irq 10, haven't had sufficient spare time to try it in 2.4 yet... do you smell a hardware bug? j. -- all your base are belong to us! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/