[plug] Re: Realtek NIC and SuSE

[Dean Holland]

Sounds like Mandrake is using APIC to assign IRQs, whereas SuSE isn't?

Dean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Fountain" <derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Realtek NIC and SuSE


> 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?
>
> -- 
> > eatapple
> core dump
>