Netgear MA301 and IRQs

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Nov 13 10:40:40 EST 2001


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:04:23PM +0100, Bjoern Giesler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 12. November 2001 11:38 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout:
> > Well, it would be just after setting the COR. Here is some code off the
> > top of my head. I have no real idea how the PCI stuff works, I'm just
> > guessing:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I'll try to put that in this afternoon, when I get home. I have to warn 
> you, though, that I have next to no clue about kernel programming, so I'm 
> flying blind. Well, anyway. ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> PS This PLX thing, is this a generic PCMCIA-to-something bridge? I.e. 
> could you make it talk to a PCMCIA IDE controller, or is it specialized 
> for WLAN?

I'm not entirely sure.  I don't think it's specific to WLAN as such,
but it does make some assumptions about what sorts of io resources the
card has.  AFAIK it's not possible to do a full PCMCIA implementation
through it (well, for one thing it doesn't allow hotplug).

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