Thanks to everybody for the help.
As soon as I get a chance to try it (tomorrow,
hopefully) I'll update you. If I'm lucky, I'll have
written down everything I do for the sake of a HOW-TO.
--- Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> irc: CareBear\
> irl: Peter Stuge
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