irq conflict with any pcmcia nic

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <3F95D439.8635CA9C at comcast.net>
            Gary Corcoran <garycor at comcast.net> writes:
: What about recent notebook PCs (like mine) that have no floppy drive _at all_ ?
: Shouldn't IRQ 6 be free then?   Just curious...

Not necessarily.  Many of the PC Card/CardBus bridges list IRQ 6 as
'reserved' and might not work (hmmm, that's in ISA mode, so maybe
not).  It might also be that IRQ 6 isn't setup right to be a PCI
interrupt.  Maybe the south bridge has a floppy controller in it, even
if your laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

Warner