Dear All, I have bought a new HP Deskjet 940c after giving up on my very old Epson Stylus Color. I still could not print until I reinstalled. Then printing worked until I installed sound. I am using LM8.1.
When I had LM8 my printing, internet, and sound worked right away without my intervention. Now with 8.1 I have discovered that I have to configure my ethernet (SMC EZcard ) after install to make it work and I have to add sb to /etc/modules to get my sound card to work. After that my printing stops working. I checked on all ioports and interrupts to see if there is a conflict but cannot find the conflict so far. I have reinstalled several times the past few days to isolate the problem and discovered some interesting things: My sound card and ethernet card both insist on using irq 5 and io port 0x220. These settings are supposed to be for my soundcard and the ethernet worked through LM 7, 7.2, and 8, with irq 9 and 0x280 ioport. Now, when I try to set this up I cannot get the ethernet to work with those settings or any others that I have tried except for the ones reserved for my sound card. In other words I have to make the choice of sound or internet. When I finally did get the sound and internet both working a few times then the printing stopped working. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I have read everything about ethernet and soundcards that I can and have configured as much as I can however I cannot get my ethernet on any other setting except for the irq 5 and ioport 0x220 which is again supposed to be for my sound card. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I would like to have the internet, sound , and printing all working as they did in previous LM distros. Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia
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