Hello again! Sorry that I didn't write for so long but I had the flu. So, I've finally looked up what this chip is and I've seen... it's an ISA card chip. So, you probably have to set the resources for this card before you can load the sb module. Maybe, you can do this by switching the "PNP OS installed" option of your BIOS to "No" so that the BIOS sets the resources (but switching that may cause problems with windows) , but a common solution is that you have set them by the 'isapnp' program. To prepare this, do the following:
-maybe delete the current /etc/isapnp.conf -then: pnpdump > /etc/insapnp.conf (pnpdump is in the package isapnptools) -then: edit the /etc/isapnp.conf: Pnpdump has created many possible configurations, and you must make one valid by removing the '#' signs before the lines belonging to this one configuration. Also, you must remove the '#' before the (ACT Y) of this device. Also see 'man isapnp.conf' for examples. -now, you can try 'isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' and see if it takes the settings without problems. If it sees some problems, maybe a reboot helps (I don't really know because I have no such devices here at the moment although I had some); you don't have to call isapnp a second time after the reboot because it is automatically called at system bootup. Just look around if there are any error messages from isapnp or if it has succeeded. Sometimes, isapnp setups can be somewhat tricky because pnpdump suggests wrong values or so... if that's the case, maybe you can find more documentation in the kernel Documentation directory or at howto.tucows.com or at www.esstech.com. -After isapnp succeeds, try again starting the module. Maybe you also have to set io= / irq= / dma= etc. parameters in addition to the ess version paramter I told you when you load the module; you get this values from the valid lines in isapnp.conf. Just mail again if you have any problems! Cheers, Stephan
