[ale] Changing an IRQ ?

[Wandered Inn]

My serial irq's only show up when the port is in use.  For example, with
my network up on my modem I see:

 0:    3558933   timer
 1:       2859   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
 3:      32228 + serial		<<-------------------------
 5:          1   sound blaster
10:       9328   eth0
12:     148875   PS/2 Mouse
13:          1   math error
14:      16552 + ide0
15:         12 + ide1

But when it's down I see:

 0:    3558933   timer
 1:       2859   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
 5:          1   sound blaster
10:       9328   eth0
12:     148875   PS/2 Mouse
13:          1   math error
14:      16552 + ide0
15:         12 + ide1

I assume it's this way so the irq's may be shared, as often is the case
when you have more than two serial ports.

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
>   I have a system running RedHat-5.1.  Acording to the hardware my Com1 is
> at IRQ4 and Com2 is at IRQ3.  The dmesg shows it here also:
> 
> Jan 11 07:02:47 wally kernel: Serial driver version 4.26 with no serial options enabled
> Jan 11 07:02:47 wally kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> Jan 11 07:02:47 wally kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Jan 11 07:02:47 wally kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> 
> however, if I cat /proc/interupts I get this:
>   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:       6750       7009    IO-APIC-edge  serial
>   8:          0          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
> 
> And that's the only reference to serial.  This is kernel
> 2.1.128.
> 
>   Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Robert
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                |    Windows is to Unix
> Senior System Administrator II  |      what 'hooked on phonics'
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> 
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> 
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> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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