Subject: Re: 2 Q's: ethernet & audio cards
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/20/1998 20:36:17
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Space Case wrote:

> Second. This box seems to have IRQ 9 redirected to IRQ 2 by the BIOS,
> and I haven't found the way to break in and see if I can relieve it
> of that duty...  My ethernet cards are Accton EN1650's, a NE-2000 type,
> and both look to be working OK under DOS.  Because of the redirect,
> though, I cannot set the IRQ to 9 where the kernels want it.  If I set
> one to port 300/irq 10 (for ne1), would that be usable for a network
> install?

Don't worry. Through the beauty of PC-AT interrupt design, IRQ 2 == IRQ 9.
It's a very standard thing.

Take care,

Bill