On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:27:43PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 03 September 2001 12:33 pm, Chris Reeves wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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>
A couple of points here: 1. It is usually best to use the 'modprobe' command, rather than 'insmod'. 'modprobe' will handle all module dependencies automatically (and some other stuff) while 'insmod' won't. 2. The aha1542 module uses 0x330 as its base address by default. 4. The systax is incorrect in the above example:
I beg to differ:
1) Yes, modprobe is better but I wasn't sure what environment or problem he was dealing with. IAE, the information given would have helped him
Fair enough - I was adding more general information while I was at it. BTW, I didn't mean any of that in a bad way. :-/ Accept my humble apologies ;-)
2) Yes.. (and your point?)
What can I say... I was on a roll ;-)
4) And your syntax is incorrect.
From the 'Using OpenLinux' book which lists the parms for all modules:
Boot Parameters:
Format:
aha1542=<IO port>,<bus on>,<bus off>,<DMA speed>
IO port 0x0130,0x0134,0x0230,0x0330,0x0334, (probed at 330 and 334) 0x234
bus on has a value 2-15 with 11 as default (microsec)
bus off has a value 1-64 with 4 as a default
DMA speed 5,6,7,8,10 (MB/sec)
Note the use of aha1542=<parms>
The adaptec drivers use this format specifically. Same for the aha152x module.
NOTE: The above are BOOT parameters. The book notes that "no MODULE parameters are provided for this driver".
That's right, they're boot parameters, as I said below.
aha1542=0x330 can be used in that form when it is passed as a kernel parameter, for example at a LILO prompt or as part of an append= line in the lilo.conf file. When using insmod or modprobe, the module should be loaded as follows (using modprobe as an example): modprobe aha1542 io=0x330
My bad - I misread the source. :( If I hadn't thought that bit was incorrect, I wouldn't have bothered with the rest of the message (since what you had was, well, correct)... I'll read slower next time. Is it me, or am I seriously overusing smileys here? As you can probably tell, I'm in a happy, jolly, bouncy mood. It's great to be back! Not a great start though. :'( Have fun, Chris ;-) :-) :-p -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\