On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 11:44:50PM -0500, Jason Gauthier wrote:
> Next is a concern about the installation notes. It specifies the 3c503
> ethernet card has to be set at the following to work:
> address: 0x250
> irq: 9
> iomem: 0d8000
> 
> However, looking at the technical web page for this card
> (http://www.us.dell.com/support/tech/DTA/ELINK2/00000004.htm)
> It notes that only IRQ's 2,3,4,5 are used on this card.

That's the old 8259-cascading confusion. IRQ2 is used to channel
interrupts through to to the next interrupt controller. IRQ9
is the one that "takes its place". Using IRQ9 should work just
fine.

- Frank