Re: Semi OT: Netatalk

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     Has anyone here used a Farallon Phonenet PC III (or similar) card
and
> > netatalk? I'm trying to get my linux box talking on my localtalk network
and
> > then hopefully one day acting as a TCP/IP gateway. The problem I am
running
> > into is that the cops.o driver I compiled into my kernel is trying to
use
> > IRQ 5. My card is set to IRQ 3, and would like to keep it that way since
IRQ
> > 5 is used for my sound card in Win 98se, which i dual boot.
> >
> > Anyway, how do I get the cops.o driver to use IRQ 3? Most of the
> > documentation seems to apply to loading cops.o as a module.
>
> It's been a while since I hacked on that driver but IIRC the COPS card
> did not actually use interrupts; it relied upon polling TX-ready and
> RX-ready registers.  Having said that, it occurs to me that there may be
> more than one flavor of hardware sold by COPS...
>
> Anyway, it should be very simple to modify the driver source to use any
> IRQ you desire.

Yeah, I realize that now AFTER I compiled my kernel. Didn't think to look at
the source and it's right there. I think I'm just going to leave it as a
module this time around, so I can specify the IO address and IRQ at will.

Thanks,
Greg