Re: newbie: passing parameters to a module
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
>
>
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