It is possible to relocate a PnP sound card's interrupts, and it is possible to use pnpdump to build a basic isapnp.conf file, but your sound card is PCI. The rig you mention smells highly proprietary. I would hazard a guess or two at brand names from my own experience, but I see no reason to.
Linux has requirements for hardware a little saner than those of Windows, and of course it doesn't support those things made to run only under windows. (Would you rather write a driver for a cheap, poorly-performing modem where all is secret or one which supports all the latest bells and whistles for which you have good hardware information, given that your time is limited and you're not getting paid for it?)
Yes, it is possible to buy hardware that is distinctly unfriiendly to Linux, and I fear that is what has happened here.
Civileme
James Schofield wrote:
Well I think I am going to give up on my install of Mandrake.I cannot get it to recognize my modem or sound card.
I have found out the my modem is on Com3 IRQ11 but have found no way..
even with everyones help of finding it or configuring it.As for my sound card it is found by linux when it boots.. but it aborts
putting it in memory because it is sharing an IRQ with another item on the
PCI bus.. which is fine in windows but not in linux I guess..So thanks all for your help.. but this is just not hardware friendly enough
for my current system.I guess if I want to run Linux I am going to have to build a specific box
with all the specific hardware able to be detected and run.James
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