All, I have a new Sony Vaio Z505LS, which I have gotten Debian installed on. Everything works, except one thing: when I boot, the system loads the sound card modules before the Ethernet card modules, and the sound card "steals" the Ethernet's IRQ. This does not happen if I load the Ethernet card first. I can easily frankenstein into the init scripts the functionality that the Ethernet card gets loaded first, but I would rather know the "Debian way" of doing this correctly. I'm guessing it has something to do with the /etc/modules.conf setup? Btw, if anyone is interested in how I got Debian installed on this laptop, I'd be happy to write it up. The USB floppy drive makes for an interesting install, given that Debian likes a Rescue and a Root floppy, and the kernel on the Rescue floppy doesn't speak USB... Sean -- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein Sean C. Rhea | Please do not accept any email from me srhea@cs.berkeley.edu | which is not digitally signed. Also, http://www.srhea.net | please sign any email you send to me.
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