Re: PCMCIA Interupt problems (2.2.17)

David Hinds (dhinds@valinux.com)
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:25:44 -0700

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 11:42:04AM +0900, YH Gian wrote:
>
> I am not very familiar with what is going on with pccard
> interrupts but if the IRQs don't get through, why does the Network
> card still work after the suspend although it complains of the
> interrupts dropped ? The same can't be said for the modem card though.

Some of the PCMCIA network drivers are somewhat resistant against
interrupts not working, and will do their best to poll for packets.
The serial driver polls very very slowly.

If you check /proc/interrupts, it will confirm that no interrupts are
delivered.

-- Dave

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