>>>>> "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 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/