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From: "Gl Elad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MaD dUCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: modem troubles solved
> Hi,
>
> irq 9 _is_ irq 2. irq 9 - 16 are handled by a secondary interrupt
> controller, that's connected to the primary one at irq 2, so irq 2 is
> actually the first irq on the second controller, which is irq 9.
>
Actually, the master PIC handles IRQ0 to IRQ7, and the slave handles IRQ8 to
IRQ15. The physical bus pin that was labelled as IRQ2 on the PC-XT was
rerouted to the second IRQ on the slave PIC (IRQ9) on newer motherboards.
- Kevin.
>
> At 03:21 PM 4/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >hi guys,
> >sorry for flooding then, for i in {1..15}; do setserial /dev/modem $i;
> >minicom; done revealed that it is running not off irq 3, but off irq 2.
> >weird. when connecting, /proc/interrupts reports the serial driver to
> >use irq 9. oh well, it works...
> >
> >thanks though if you spent even a second reading my post.
> >
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