On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> The PCMCIA code does not allocate an interrupt for the ethernet cards
> until they are ifconfig'ed. A sysctl can get to them first.

Ah! I understand....

So what's the problem with using IRQ 15? I know it's normally the
secondary IDE, but wouldn't we know by ifconfig time if it's in use or
not? Or is the problem that it can be an unusable interupt even if there's
no secondary (compatability-mode) IDE?

Take care,

Bill