On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:50:58PM -0500, Joe Reed wrote:
> hi all, 
> 
> i'm still working on modifying the gsip driver to work with netgear's ga-621 
> card.  i recently learned that on a wondoze system, these cards will not 
> operate on anything EXCEPT irq 9.  looking at my dmesg, gsip0 initializes in 
> irq5.  i'd like to force it to use irq 9 and see what happens. 
> 
> what is the best way to go about doing this? 

Doing it withing the BIOS. Most BIOSes have a way to hardwire IRQs used by
different PCI slots.
Doing it in kernel may ot be easy, you'll have to redo IRQ routing.
You'll need to change much more things than the gsip driver.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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