"J.A. Magallon" wrote:
>
>
> 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...
Hi Juan,
Thanks for your reply. I tried this but unfortunately isapnp does not
scan the address I am using or in fact any of the other adrresses that
my card can use(I guess my card is pre-proper isapnp). Your reply was a
help though as the output of pnpdump at least gave me the form the entry
required in modules.conf.
I edited modules.conf by hand to put in an entry for the aha1542; more
reading of the source indicated that addresses 0x330 and 0x334 are
scanned automatically for cards by the driver so I picked 0x334. Running
modprobe from the command line caused the module load and the the card
and the scanner came up in the KDE control panel. I then ran insmod in
the hope of getting the module to load at boot time this was
unsuccessful; after a alot of poking around I discovered a file
/etc/modules adding the name of the driver here got me a load on boot so
now I'm happy. One has to remember to turn the scanner on if one doesn't
want kudzu popping up in the hardware detection phase of boot but then
that another issue!!
Thanks Again
Regards
C.H. Close
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