Re: delaying eth0 initialization

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>>>>> "nitin" == nitin panjwani <nitin_rpr@yahoo.com> writes:

nitin> Aniruddh,
nitin> I can see the card when I do cat /proc/pci... so it is
nitin> in the kernel ? 

Nope, it is on the PCI bus ;)

nitin> this card has the same irq that one of my usb, can
nitin> that be problem.. 

The PCI bus allows interrupt lane sharing.  The drivers have to be
written with interrupt sharing in mind too.

nitin> but I have heard we can run many pci cards with same IRQ.

Any device can be run with interrups shared, as long as there's a way
to recognize which one caused the interrupt (possibly by reading a
device register).

~velco
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