Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

[Andreas Bohnert <abo@online.de>]

Hi,

I have an old but still pretty good ISA PnP Soundcard (EWS64XL) . Now I 
have to initialize the card at boot time BEFORE the kernel loads the 
moduls, otherwise the (sound-)modul will mess up my configuration.  
Which boot script allows me to do some action before the kernel starts 
to load the modules??

In detail:
if have a script (|/etc/init.d/isapnp|) which looks like that:

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/isapnp: configure Plug and Play boards
test -x /sbin/isapnp || exit 0
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
exit 0

and a startup script which looks like that:

# Configure the isa plug and play boards before loading
# modules. Need to do this before loading modules to get
# a chance of configuring and starting PnP boards before
# the drivers mess all this up.
#
if [ -x /etc/init.d/isapnp ]
then
 /etc/init.d/isapnp start


thanke for any advice!
andreas

i worked according to the very good tutorial form Marcus Brinkmann:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Soundblaster-AWE.html#toc2