Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 06:30:36 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <199707191330.GAA18837@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:23:20 %2B0200." <15909.869318600@verdi.nethelp.no>
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>> irq 5 is used because it is the standard for all 8bit Western Digital >> 8003 cards and all 3Com 3c503 boards. I think it might even be the standard >> for Novell NE1000/NE2000 cards. In other words, it's far more common than >> irq 10 which is only found on 16bit WD/SMC cards. > >It's not the default for all NE2000 clones though. I have several Kingston >NE2000 clones where the default IRQ is 3. They work very well (even if I >normally configure them for a different IRQ). Yikes! The default is the COM2 irq? Evil. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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