On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:42:38AM -0500, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dual Pentium Pro system running Mandrake 10. This box is old enough that > it doesn't have an integrated USB port. I went to Intrex and picked up a > USB/PCI adapter. The Mandrake install found it with no problem. But this > card uses several IRQs including 16 which is the same IRQ as my network > card. I tried a couple of different brands of NICs and they both wanted > IRQ 16. Back in the DOS days I used a floppy based exe to change the > card's IRQ. Is there any way to do this in the linux config?
Generally, with PCI devices you can't manually change the IRQ unless you do it at the BIOS level on a per-slot basis. On the other hand, PCI devices can happily share IRQ's in most cases. Otherwise, the easiest way to change its IRQ is to try a different slot :). David
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