Subject: How to resolve interrupt conflicts?
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/05/1998 08:54:27
Please forgive me if this in in a FAQ - I _did_ look but couldn't find
it...  Also, this is my first foray into the port-i386 world, and I'm
not really very familiar with the hardware side of things...

I'm attempting to install NetBSD-1.3 on a Dell XPS system, and it gets
almost all the way through auto-configuration.  When it gets to wss0, it
complains that it cannot share an edge-triggered interrupt.

Looking at the config information, it seems that my 3Com 3C905 Ethernet
card is configured (early on) with an IRQ of 10.  Then, wss0 is also
configured with the same IRQ10.

I rebooted into Win-95 and attempted to change the setting for the 3Com
card (I set it to 9), and rebooted NetBSD, but it still configured the
3C905 at IRQ10.  I would have changed the IRQ for the Sound system (it's
an On-Board thing, and shows up in Win-95 as "YAMAHA OPL3-SAx Sound
System"), but it apparently cannot be changed.

So, is there any way I can get past this autoconfig problem?

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