Re: ISA cards in SUSE 10.0

On 17 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.suse, in article
<slrndspmp3.ctn.charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Stroom wrote:

>Sorry, I thought it would be irrelevant info, as it seemed that both ISA
>cards are totally ignored in 10.0. But they were/are:
>-Adaptec SCSI AHA-1542C (now removed and replaced for an Adaptec PCI 2940)
>-Ricoh RF5C296/396 ISA-to-PCMCIA card reader

OK, both of those cards are somewhat less common, and in the case of the
AHA-1542, takes a driver that is normally compiled as a module. See if
your kernel has a aha1542 module. You _MAY_ have to compile your own
kernel, as those cards are on the old side.

I don't recognize the Ricoh card, but suspect the same problem.

>The info above for the Ricoh is straight from the messages file, when
>I boot into SUSE 9.1 (and when the card reader is just working fine).

lsmod and see what modules it's using. Then check to see if there isn't
something identical in name in the 10.0 kernel. Both came with 2.6.x
kernels out of box (9.1 was 2.6.5-7.95, 10.0 was 2.6.13-15), but I know
SuSE (or rather Novell) has been mucking about in there. You might look
in the kernel modules configuration files (possibly /etc/modules.conf
and/or /etc/modprobe.conf) and see what each kernel is configured to use.

Old guy
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