[ltp] Thinkpad 600E and Mandrake

wes schreiner linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:55:51 -0500


E Lofstad wrote:

>>Is there anyway that I can force the NIC to use a different IRQ? I've no idea 
>>which one it should use though - looks like they're all taken.
>>
>Look in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
>Use the "exclude irq" statement to keep the NIC off of the mwave driver
>I believe PCMCIA driver can share an IRQ with another driver (but not
>the mwave)
>
If it is a 16-bit pcmcia card it can't share an IRQ (think ISA), but if 
it is a 32-bit cardbus card (think PCI) then it usually can.

wes



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