Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:28:53PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> I would greatly value other's experience with PnP cards. I have just
> one, myself, and only just installed a 2.4 kernel on Friday to see
> what the new interface is like. It took me most of the evening to
> figure out how to re-create the old configuration.
Me too; I just upgraded a box last weekend (to 2.4) and had this break.
I used isapnp as a module, and didn't notice that the userspace
isapnp still worked, as the kernel module redid the configuration.
I read the documentation in the kernel sources about the /proc/isapnp
and couldn't make it do anything useful at all. I needed to do some
manual configuration because the default configuration made a PnP
ISA Ethernet card conflict with a non-PnP serial port.
I never could work out how to do stuff with /proc/isapnp; it always
told me I had the wrong device ID. So I think a nicer interface to
/proc/isapnp would be nice -- not just for backwards compatibility
reasons!
In the end I found the reserve irq option on the isapnp module, so
I didn't need to actually force the PnP card to particular resources.
It IS nice the way the other drivers work with the PnP driver to
get the card resources in 2.4.
regards
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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