On Sun, 22 Jan 2136, Peter Howell wrote:
> Ok. Here is the situation as far as I've been able to assertain ttyS1
> is on irq3 (set in the BIOS) I somewhat foolheartedly set the ethernet card to
> irq 3, which expains why the comm port suddenly stopped working at about the
> same time my network access did.
> So now that I've sassed out the problem, finding a solution is proving
> difficult. My ethernet card has just two jumper settings:
>
> irq 3 0x0280
> or
> irq 10 0x0300
>
> My ttyS1 can be set to either 3 or 4, but I can't move it to 4 because then it
> conflicts with ttyS0.
> Moving ttyS1 is out, which brings up the next problem. irq 10 is
> grabbed by aic7xxx. Am I correct in taking this to be the scsi module? I have
> a scsi adapter on my motherboard, but at the moment nothing is attached to it.
> Can I get rid of aic7xxx, or am I going to lose access to my ide CDROM? I've
> also looked into changing the irq of aic7xxx, but haven't been able to find
> where it gets configured. It doesn't appear in /etc/modules.conf It would be
> nice if I could find it because during bootup, it also appears that it is being
> loaded twice.
>
> Peter
i assume your scsi host adapter is a pci. so why don't you try telling
your bios that irq 10 is reserved for legacy isa? eventually the scsi
adapter will grab another irq.