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From: schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: 3c503 probe
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Date: 15 Jul 93 13:33:09 GMT
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Paul Southworth (pauls@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
: 
: Anyone know why the stock 3c503 driver thinks that the card is at IRQ 9
: (and it even works) when IRQ 9 is not even a possible IRQ for that card?
: The GENERICISA conf file says IRQ 2 .....

Because IRQ 9 is cascaded with IRQ 2; meaning it is the same as using
IRQ 2 to the board and the driver....

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Richard D. Schneeman                                      rschneeman@nist.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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