Re: (no subject) bizzarely not 'Mandrake woes' wot happened to my subject line?

["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: (no subject)


> > My network card - SMC Ultra16 (ISA non-PnP) - there is a module built
for it
> > and I can get it working with 'modprobe smc-ultra.o' - now what's the
> > _proper_ way to get it set up at boot?
>
> You probably need to specify and IRQ and stuff like that, don't
> you? If you want it to be setup at boot time, pass the module's
> arguments to the kernel through lilo (see "append" option), or add a
> like to /etc/conf.modules with those parameters.

Isn't the module loaded by the autoloader? Can you pass arguments to modules
at LILO (boot) time that will be loaded on-demand?

> > My sound card - Creative ViBRA16 (ISA PnP) (standard SB16 PnP) I have
tried
> > 'modprobe sb16.o' but I just get a message from isapnp giving the name
of
> > the card but no actual text from the sb16 module about IRQs or I/Os that
it
> > has detected. The soundcard still don't work after this. I have tried it
> > with PNP AWARE O/S switched on & off in the BIOS to no avail.
>
> You have to set that sort of stuff yourself. Try pnpdump >
> /etc/<see man isapnp> to get the skeleton of the file, and just set the
> IRQ and base yourself. soundconfig will be quite happy with that. Mine
> worked out of the box. At the moment, I don't have my SB16 here, and I
> can't recall what modules it needs.

Cool I have no worries playing with isapnptools, just wanted to be sure that
it wouldn't conflict with any pnp software started at boot.

Thanks for the info

PS I seem to have lost my Subject header
I quote from my Sent Items folder:

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Basterfield <misterbob [at] mailandnews.com>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: Mandrake woes

Somewhere along the line 'Mandrake woes' turned to '(no subject)'. Serve me
right for using MS software.

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198



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