[PARPORT] PLIP with interrupt=255

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Good hint - the man-page of ifconfig shows the option "irq addr".
But trying "ifconfig plip0 irq 7" gave me "SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported". (?)

Dieter

> >Unfortunately PLIP (on the PC) uses the interrupt IRQ=255 ... and not IRQ=7 (w
> >hich is defined in the BIOS) - so I got (with ping) 70% packet loss.
>
> Oh, I see, the "interrupt 255" is what's being reported by ifconfig.
> Unfortunately the irq field in `struct ifmap' is indeed an unsigned char. I
> guess the only way to make it come out right is to hack ifconfig about.
>

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