Andrew Ban on Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:31:35 -0500 (EST)


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Re: PCMCIA - IRQ Assignments


I did swap the pcmcia cards but the same thing occurs the first card gets
IRQ 3 and the second gets "RequestIRQ: Resource in use" tho I am working
on the assumption that both cards want to use IRQ 3 - this may be an error
on my part but it seems to be a reasonable guess.  what I cannot seem to
find is if I can force the assignment of IRQs for either card in
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts or /etc/pcmcia/network.opts tho network.opts does
not look like the place to do this.

* continues scratching head *

Drew
aban@voicenet.com

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jonathan Disher wrote:

> In my experience, on a Gateway 2000 original Solo, and a Toshiba Satellite
> Pro 430CDT, swap the cards... i.e. if the NIC is on top, move it to the
> bottom.  I dunno why, but this fixed that problem of only the modem
> initializing like 95% of the time.
> 
> *shrug*.
> 
> --jon
> 
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Andrew Ban wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am using pcmcia services 3.0.9 and I have been in RTM (PCMCIA How-to)
> > mode.  My 56K Modem (USR/MHz XJ1560) is also using :  IO 0x2f8 IRQ 3 but
> > my NIC (3COM 3C589D) also wants that address so the question I need to
> > answer then is how to force the NIC to IO 0x200 IRQ 9.
> > 
> > 
> > Other info:
> > Red Hat on a Digital Hinote VP562
> > 2.2.2 Kernel
> > pcmcia-cs-3.0.9
> > 
> > well I am off to http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ to
> > see what I can dig up there.
> > 
> > Drew
> > aban@voicenet.com
> > 
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	Thanks for the great help with my PPP questions. I however now
> > > > have a new question for the list.  When booting my system I have both my
> > > > PCMCIA cards installed (Modem and Ethernet).  Both cards are recognized
> > > > with no problem.  The first card will initalize and use IRQ 3 then the 
> > > > second card will then be initalized and also try to use IRQ 3.  This of
> > > > course will make the second card unavailable.  Can I force the cards to
> > > > use a particular IRQ and if yes any suggestions as to which IRQ numbers I
> > > > should look at first.
> > > 
> > > I'm using redhat on a Dell Inspirion 7000.  I've got both a 33.6k PCMCIA
> > > modem, and a 3com 10/100 Vortex PCMCIA NIC (3CCFE575).
> > > 
> > > My NIC is using:    IO 0x200 IRQ 9 
> > > My Modem is using:  IO 0x2f8 IRQ 3
> > > 
> > > They are both handled by the pcmcia services.  Make sure you have the
> > > latest pcmcia services (I've got 3.0.9, you can check by running 
> > > cardctl -V).  Also, have a look at:  
> > > 
> > >   http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> > > 
> > > Which you can get to off of the Laptops link from the Hardware page
> > > on Linux.org.  Have a look at that page, it lists stuff for countless
> > > laptops.
> > > 
> > > k
> > > 
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