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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stray IRQs )-:
Date: 22 Jul 1995 19:48:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (20 Jul 1995 10:10:34 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, 
residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote:
|>
|>Stray IRQ 7
|>	or
|>Stray IRQ 15

|Make sure the interrupt setting of the card matches the idea of the
|kernel.

I've never seen this happening on my home computer (with no network card
whatsoever), al it has is a modem, and the ever seen mouse (I do not have
X installed). And today, I noticed a kernel message on the screen:
	stray IRQ 7

What is stray IRQ? What is it caused by? Thank you!
	-mi
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