Greetings.
I've been away for a coupla days. Glad to see you've got it working :)
Here's a coupla thoughts.
Most people know the common IRQs for things like the first two serial ports and
parallel port (from the old DOS days ha ha), so forget those. Then cat
/proc/interrupts as John suggested, and that will tell you which other ones are being
used. Then just pick an unused one that you like, and it should work.
Don't forget to cat /proc/ioports to see which I/O ports are available as well. My
ethernet card NE2000 compatible was set to one particular IO port which was not being
scanned by the Linux NE startup code, so I changed ne.c so it would scan that port.
Made a kernel, and everything works fine. It was easier than trying to find the
manual to find out which jumper to change on the card. That particular kernel is
running on 3 Linux boxes now without a hitch. But you've got it working which sounds
like there is no IO port conflict, but it is something else to be aware of.
I've found a lot of interesting information in /proc which is not necessarily readily
legible, but easily accessible if you want to write a program to interpret it for you.
A lot of the Linux utilities use information from here for process display, cpu usage
etc. etc. Well worth spending an hour or so looking around in there. :)
Dave
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From: Joachim Feise[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 4 June 1998 5:36
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Dave'; 'masq'
Subject: Re: [masq] ip masq connects best if constantly pinging clients
It only shows the used ones, but you have to know that irq3 is still reserved
for the second serial even if it doesn't show up.
Joe
John Lombardo wrote:
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
>
> Shows which interrupts are in use and what they're used for.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joachim Feise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 8:35 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: 'Dave'; 'masq'; 'linux-net'
> > Subject: Re: [masq] ip masq connects best if constantly pinging clients
> >
> >
> > Not that I know of, but then I didn't need such a tool yet. I
> > remember a couple
> > tools under dos.
> > As a general rule, you more likely find a free irq in the upper
> > range. I always
> > use either irq 10 or 11.
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > Jann Linder wrote:
> > >
> > > is there a way to find out which irq's are unused in linux now
> > so i know what to set it to?
> > >
> > > Jann
> > >
> > [snip]
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