Re: forcing a pci nic to use a different irq?

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:25:19PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> cat /proc/interrupts

>  11:       5986          XT-PIC  sym53c8xx, eth0

> append="ether=9,0,0,0,eth0"
> 
> Then I *ran lilo*, rebooted, but the result was the same: the card still
> loads on IRQ 11.
> 
> The card *used* to work fine.  In fact it just started having this
> problem, and I can't figure out why.

Perhaps you upgraded your kernel?  Or you moved cards around?

You can manually set interrupts in most bios setup menus, I believe.

Also look at the setpci(8) manpage in the pciutils package.

Cheers,


Joost