Hello, On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Huebel, David wrote:
> Hello, > > I believe that my question is this: I have seen that you can pass > parameters to a module like irq=9 dma=whatever io=whatever. If a > card uses more than one range of dma addresses, is there another > parameter I need to pass to the driver? > Depends on the module. Soundcards supports sometimes things like dma0=, dma1=, or dma16=. > If that question makes sense, then you don't need to read on. Thanks > in advance for any help! If it doesn't, here is the long story: > > I have been having trouble trying to get my 3com 3c905C TX-M to work. > I discovered that if I remove the sound card from my computer, I have > no problems getting the network card to work. I haven't yet tried > getting the sound card to work under Debian, with or without the > network card. What soundcard are you using? Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentations/sound/ (kernel documentation) for information about module ooptions for your card. > > With both cards installed, I booted to Windows 98 (where they work > fine) and copied down the settings for the sound card and the network > card. Windows reported an irq and a range of i/o addresses for each > card, and one of them (the sound card, I think) had a single range of > "memory" addresses. The other card was using two range of "memory" > addresses. I assume the addresses listed as "memory" are dma addresses > (please correct me if I'm wrong). > > I guess if I pass the values that worked under Windows to the modules, > then everything will work fine. So how do I pass the second range of > dma addresses? > > Thanks in advance, > > David > > "Live as if you will die tomorrow - study as if you will live forever." > -- Erasmus > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
