"configured irq .. is not in bitmap of probed irqs 0" -- what does it mean?

[Andrew L. Neporada]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:52:21PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> Chances are you don't have things configured quite correctly in the
> bios.  The interrupts aren't asserting proplerly.

Interrupts 3,4,10,11 are reserved for ISA cards in BIOS.
Tweaking "PnP aware OS [Y/N]" setting doesn't help.
I've tried to tweak all relevant (IMO) BIOS settings without any effect :-(

> 
> : Surprisingly, but it seems that both COM3 & COM4 ports work ok
> : (getty works, there is no "silo overflow" errors).
> 
> That's likely because you are using 9600 baud.  sio installs a timeout
> to harvest characters, and that's what saves you.
>
> 
> : So, should I worry about this error?
> 
> Likely.
> 
> Warner

Thanks for your help. I'll test higher speeds tomorrow.


				Andrew.