[vortex] Interrupt conflicts.

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:03:27 -0400 (EDT)


On 22 Aug 2001, Lars Chr. Hausmann wrote:

> I'm using a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop with a 3c575 vortex PCMCIA card.
> 
> The card reports:
> 3com 3CFE565BT Cyclone Cardbus at 0x400, <MAC>, IRQ 10.
> My main problem is that the i82365 module is also running at IRQ 10.

That's not a problem.  PCI-connected devices may share interrupts.

Your likely problem is that the PCMCIA controller code is confused or
misconfigured.  If you are running the 2.4 kernel, try a 2.2 kernel
combined with David Hinds' PCMCIA code.

> I've tried using the exclude irq 10 in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and
> setting irq_list for the i82365 module. But little good does it do me.

Those should work...

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