[kbuild-devel] irq probilem

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

Please send replies through the list, that's why it's there.

I don't know the answer to your question, since it depends on your cards,
your motherboard and other setup details which you havn't said. Please give
actual examples of it failing if you want more help.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:23:07PM -0700, nitin panjwani wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> Do I need to indicate about having more than one cars
> in the code or is there some other way.
> What if I have cards from two different vendors one is
> from 3Com and other one is DLink.
> 
> --- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:44:20PM -0700, nitin
> > panjwani wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a pc in which I am runing RH7.2 with kernel
> > > 2.4.19. I am trying to install to nic cards in
> > > that,but it seems there is some irq conflict
> > problem.
> > > It recognzes only one card no matter which card I
> > plug
> > > in. It never recognizes the same card.
> > 
> > What driver? All PCI cards must cope with sharing
> > IRQs. Trying to get them
> > onto seperate IRQs will likely to be futile. If
> > they're the same type of
> > card, perhaps you need to indicate to the driver
> > that there is more than one
> > card.
> > 
> > > When I checked /proc/pci I found that my sound
> > card
> > > and second nic card have the same irq number(10).
> > > Can any one please advic me how should I resove
> > thie
> > > problem.
> > 
> > It's not a problem. Trying fiddling with your BIOS
> > settings (the BIOS
> > allocates IRQs to slots).
> > 
> > > Adding to this I have another pc with same kernel
> > and
> > > from the same vendor which has three nic cards and
> > it
> > > is assigning different irq numbers to each of them
> > .
> > 
> > Some BIOSs are better than others. I have a
> > motherbard that puts every card
> > on the same IRQ no matter what I fiddle.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>  
> > http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those
> > that can do binary
> > > arithmetic and those that can't.
> 
> 
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-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.