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
hmmm, I figured it was a conflict because the NIC wouldn't work. But it could have well been something else, I was in a bit of an upgrade frenzy this weekend. I've got everything working without the USB card, I'll stick it in tonight and see what happens.
Thanks!
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