Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03 September 2001 11:50 am, Chris Herrnberger wrote:
> On September 2, 2001 09:27 am, Martin Webster wrote:
> > Did you type insmod aha1542=0x330?
>
> Thanks for responding this is driving me nuts. Are you sure the syntax is
> correct. I understand what you are doing but Im not sure that this is the
> correct manner to enter the parameter:
>
> Info:
>
> PNP bios disabled in main bios
> Scsi bios loads and the driver is reported
> ISAPNP enabled in linux
>
> dmesg reports:
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: Card '3Com 3C509B EtherLink III'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
>
> now insmod aha1542=0x330  reports
> root@gunnel:/home/chris > insmod aha1542=0x330
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/abi/common/abi-common.o/aha1542=0x330
> insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/abi/common/abi-common.o/aha1542=0x330: Not a
> directory
>
> Any insights would be helpfull and appreciated.
>
> Chris

I believe it should be:

insmod  aha154x   aha1542x=0x0330

The first parm tells insmod what to load and the second parm is passed to the 
loaded module.  You might want to add the irq also:   aha1542x=0x0330,<irq>


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