[plug] Re: Realtek NIC and SuSE

[Derek Fountain]

On Friday 25 July 2003 07:56, Richard Meyer wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> Just in case you were wondering, and sitting in a state of tension  ;-)  -
> I think I've found the source of my fun and games with SuSE. After scarcely
> 10 minutes of ceaseless searching, I found the following from dmesg NIC and
> usb-uhci.c uses IRQ11 under SuSE, but under Mdk usb-uhci.c uses IRQ21,
> while the NIC is on IRQ18.
>
> Looks like I'll have to read up about allocating IRQ's tonight or tomorrow.
> Just darn glad I found it.

Is it actually possible to control the IRQs which are assigned? I thought, in 
my ignorance, that it was part dependent on the hardware (what is in which 
slot), and part dependent on the BIOS (which hardware is enabled).

Why should two Linux distros get the hardware assigned onto different IRQs?

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