I have a non-standard interface card and I...
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Jul 2002
Q.
I have a non-standard interface card and I must write a handler for the hardware interrupt (IRQ3) on NetWare. What kind of function must I use?
A.
Check out "Interrupts in the Symmetric Multi-Processing Environment" located at http://developer.novell.com/devres/langrp/lan/DISPATCH/smpmemo.htm
Also, if you are looking to put together a basic "private" interface, you could look at the demo AIOCOMX driver that Novell provides as an example at http://developer.novell.com/ndk/aio.htm.
Remember that programming to interrupts with NetWare is a tricky proposition. Read the above documents thoroughly. Novell also provides many NDKs that are designed to help you write low-level NetWare LAN, disk, tape, and WAN drivers.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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