At 04:52 PM 12/21/99 -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>If I deactivate the eth0 and both the modem and the NIC are on the same
IRQ, will I
>still have a conflict??
Yes. As long as both devices are physically preseent in the host and trying
to use the same IRQ, you will have a conflict. (A charming, hard-to-detect
variation of your problem involves a Winmodem conflicting with a serial port
or an Ethernet card. Even though Linux cannot use the WInmodem, it still
causes an IRQ conflict.)
>IRQ is a bus right???
No. IRT is a train, but IRQ isn't a bus. It's an interrupt signal to the
CPU. Intel CPUs have 16 interrupt levels, 0 to 15.
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