Re: PC Cards and irq

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From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Thu Mar 12 1998 - 21:07:56 EST

On Thu, 12 Mar 98 19:34:55 -0400, Patrick Ash wrote:

>I recently added an ethernet card to my TP755 CSE. The card is a
>Xircom ce3-100btx, and using the provided config utility, the card
>uses irq 5. This is, according to the Xircom docs, hardware
>dependant. This, however, conflicts with the Sound Blaster support.
>My main OS is OS/2, and the only irq's available for SB are 5 and 7.
>If I use 7, I then loose printer support.
>
only if your BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ

without the /IRQ line, it polls the printer port.

>The TP documentation does not say anything about reassigning the irq
>for the PC card, but I did see a reference to irq 15 in the readme
>for the pcmcia drivers. Is there any way to use an irq other than 5
>for the ethernet card? Thanks for any help.
>

Some cards let you do that with the enablers. For example, I made COM3
(the modem I'm using now - Home & Away) IRQ 11 using a tagline. 

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