Bill Studenmund writes:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > The PCMCIA code does not allocate an interrupt for the ethernet cards
> > until they are ifconfig'ed. A sysctl can get to them first.
> 
> Ah! I understand....
> 
> So what's the problem with using IRQ 15? I know it's normally the
> secondary IDE, but wouldn't we know by ifconfig time if it's in use or
> not? Or is the problem that it can be an unusable interupt even if there's
> no secondary (compatability-mode) IDE?

This I don't personally understand.

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