Re: General advice for beginner (long)
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: 14 Sep 2004 13:29:49 GMT
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:41:00 +0100, Bill Holt staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> writes
>>The sound card may be reasonably easy to fix. I'll backtrack on this
>>thread and follow up in another message.
> That would be very helpful.
If the sound chip is an ESS1869, you do this:
modprobe sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=X dma16=Y esstype=1869
The IRQ and I/O values here are the standard Soundblaster ones. Modify
if you've changed them. I don't know what X and Y will be on your
setup.
> My next task here is to investigate the usb and networking situation
> as I have to find some way of getting data on or off the small
> machine.
Networking: Find out what kind of network card is on the PCI bus with
"lspci | grep Ethernet". modprobe the appropriate module. If you don't
know what the appropriate module is, you can usually find it by grepping
through /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ .
USB: Easier since there are only 2 USB 1 chipsets. "modprobe
usb-uhci", if that doesn't work, "modprobe usb-ohci". modprobe ehci-hcd
if you have USB 2 on this machine. There are a bunch of subsidiary
modules for specific USB devices. The most important one is for USB
Mass Storage devices and is called "usb-storage". Sometimes, subsidiary
modules are loaded on demand via hotplug, sometimes not. Check to see
if hotplug's running, if not, either start it or manually modprobe the
things you know you're going to need. HTH,
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