On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:29:17AM +0200, Roberto Totaro wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Normally (i.e. when I do not try to use the IrDA if) the network card
> driver allocates irq 3, although on the 390X the IrDA uart (16550A) is
> set up by default as /dev/ttyS1 (port 0x2f8, irq 3). This means that
> if I start the IrDA subsystem AFTER the network and try to attach the
> IrDA interface to /dev/ttyS1, irattach will fail with an obscure
> error message ("tcsetattr: Input/output error").
>
> When I realized there was a hw conflict, I cleverly (sic!) thought of
> starting the IrDA daemon and calling irattach before I started the
> PCMCIA software.
If you add "exclude" statements for irq 3 & 4 (and I find 5 as well if
sound is to work on my 600E) to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, you should not
get the serial/ethernet conflict, as the ethernet card will not the excluded
irq's.
> Now the network card driver was forced to use irq 9
> and, though the IrDA interface now works fine, the network does not
> any more.
My xircom card works fine at IRQ 9. I think you need to solve that one.
Dave
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