Re: [rtl] problems with IRQ

[Michael Barabanov <baraban@fsmlabs.com>]

IRQ6 is generally used for the PC floppy. Perhaps you could use 
another IRQ?

Michael.

Marcus H?gberg (marcus.hogberg@home.se) wrote:
> Hi. I have a problem with the IRQ on a ISA-card. I have put the jumpers
> (at least I think so....) so that the IRQ is nr 6 (cat interrups says
> its unused).
> Then I've used
>     rtl_request_irq(6,ihandler);
>     rtl_hard_enable_irq(6);
> just as in sound-example. The only thing in ihandler is a "rtl_printf"
> and a "rtl_hard_enable_irq".
> The problem now is that nothing happens. Do I need to "register" the IRQ
> somewhere for the computer to listen for it?
> (I'm new at this).
> A thing that happened after i put the changes in the code is that I get
> a segmentationfault when i try to use "lsmod"
> "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtuell address
> 0000002d......"
> IRQ 6 is still not used in interrupts.
> 
> Thankful for all help.
> /Marcus
> 
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