Subject: Re: How to resolve interrupt conflicts?
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/06/1998 12:03:38
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Paul Goyette wrote:

[a Dell is being contrary]

> 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?

Did you change the assignments in your kernel config? I think most of the
drivers have hard coded IRQ's, which'd need changing when you change the
hardware assignments.

Take care,

Bill