On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:36:38AM +0800, Mark Nold wrote:
>
> Lauren, here's my mini-howto: (Its should work pretty easy for you as you are
> using RH7.1 like me)
[..nice step-by-step guide cut away..]
> A word of warning though when i ran setserial /dev/ttyS1 it happily reported
> that it was using IRQ3 but i couldnt get it to work... what i found was that my
> PCMCIA network card was already on IRQ 3 (i had a look a dmesg for this and
> later found a nice KDE tool for browsing this info which only confirmed it).
> I'm only at the stage of simply popping out the network card before booting..
> this is a pain and i'll sort out something soon (i can configure the IRQ of the
> IR port in the bios) but while im dual booting with Windows i probably wont
> change anything.
The problem isn't with setserial or the BIOS setting but instead with PCMCIA
Card Services - since nothing is using the serial port when your network
card is inserted, Card Services figures it's ok to use IRQ 3 for it.
Exclude irq 3 from the resources available to the PCMCIA Card Services by
adding a line with "exclude irq 3" to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
//Peter
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