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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>>    irq 5 is used because it is the standard for all 8bit Western Digital
>> 8003 cards and all 3Com 3c503 boards. I think it might even be the standard
>> for Novell NE1000/NE2000 cards. In other words, it's far more common than
>> irq 10 which is only found on 16bit WD/SMC cards.
>
>It's not the default for all NE2000 clones though. I have several Kingston
>NE2000 clones where the default IRQ is 3. They work very well (even if I
>normally configure them for a different IRQ).

   Yikes! The default is the COM2 irq? Evil.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project