Eth1 and Shared IRQ

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:44:23 -0700


> I installed a second NIC in a computer. No problems except
> that the IRQ that was automatically assigned is shared with
> the sound card. Since the card is a PCI using a modular
> driver the info given in the Ethernet howto does not apply.
> It talks about ISA cards and how to change the IRQ for them
> but nothing about PCI's and how to change these. Is this
> a problem and if so how do I go about changing the IRQ?

Sharing an IRQ shouldn't cause problems.  On one of my systems all my non-ISA
cards are sharing the same IRQ (6 devices on IRQ 11).