On 02/05/06 07:21, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 29/04/06 07:21, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a 9.2 system here where the network card(Realtek 8139) and the on-board sound have the same IRQ.
If either of the devices is a busmaster, then it should not matter if they share the irq. One of my network cards is a busmaster, and my sound card, both network cards, and USB are all on the same irq with no problems.
Would moving eth0 to a different PCI slot help?
If it is a busmaster, the preferred place is in slot 0. And I would easily be able to pick up that the device is a busconductor ie how do I determine this?
A busmastering device has 2 notches in the edge connector. To take full advantage of the mastering abilities, it needs to be in a busmaster slot, which has of course 2 keys (a non-busmaster card won't fit into it), but my experience has always been that without a busmaster slot available, things always seem to work better if the busmaster card is in slot 0.