root said at �[expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP�.
[2000-11-28 11:57]
> Hi,
> Can anyone advise how I might install the driver for my ancient Adaptec
> AHA-1542CP (ISA). The card does not seem to be detected at boot during
> the hardware detection phase, I have tried scanning for it using
> HardDrake but HardDrake locks up (hard reboot required) when set to
> detect ISA devices. I also have an ISA NE2000 clone network card
> installed but after two installs Mandrake picked this up. I have checked
> as far as possible for conflicts and all seems well in this area. The
> Adaptec is set for Add=0x130 irq=11 dma=7 and I have single scanner
> connected to it. I have read the kernel sources for the Adaptec driver
> and there are some hints that parameters may be passed to the card at
> boot time but it is indicated that these should be placed in lilo.conf.
> Since Mandrake (7.1) uses Grub I am not sure whether Grub will support
> this parameter passing; there seems to be no obvious mention in a skim I
> did of the Grub docs.
> Can I do this with modprobe?
>
This worked for my aha1520B. It is ISA, so you have to activate the PNP
support:
- Install isapnptools package.
- Do a pnpdump. This will write an /etc/isapnp.conf file with all your
selectable
options (irq, and ports)
- Edit that file and uncomment what matches your hardware setup.
- Leave the aha154x driver as a module.
- Do a pnpconf, and your ISA card will be active.
- Insmod the driver
On every boot, the initscripts are able to detect you have an /etc/
isapnp.conf
file and automagically run the pnpconf command.
Hope this helps...
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