On Mon 07 May, Ashley T. Howes wrote:

on 6/5/01 11:11 pm, linux user stuff at linux@wymondham.demon.co.uk wrote:

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Hi,

Following a successful install of RedHat 6.0 on an older machine I have recently changed to a Mandrake 7.2 and a quicker machine with all the bells and whistles on the motherboard. This includes networking, sound

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Mandrake is normally quite good at picking up the correct sound and network card during installation. You need to consult your motherboard documentation to find out what chipset is being used for sound and network. If you are lucky a module should be available for the kernel to get your network/sound working. Mandrake has the redhat linuxconf config utility which makes setting this up easier. There is a GUI to this tool. Logon as root, KDE session. Double click on DrakConf.

I know I shouldn't but I normally log on as root but I'm the only person using the machine.

If your network and sound card are not available as modules then you may need to compile source code. Check the website of your motherboard/sound/network card provider for support information wrt using linux.

If a module is *.o then that's on the hard drive. I get the message /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/sis900.o init-module: Device or resource is busy, similarly for sound. I thought I might need to start editing some files to have the system point to the module but plainly it's seeing it.

David Freeman said - do a more /proc/pci

Did that and it came back with a lot of stuff but the only valid bit was stuff about the vendor - SIS, device ID=7018, IRQ 11 and I/O addresses.

It said similar thing about the Ethernet controller with the device ID as 900 (see above in the bit about the module) and IRQ still as 11 and different I/O addresses of course.

I've been trying to find some info on the web about sound and it suggested I look at modules.conf. Did that and in that file it says this - alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-trident post-install snd-card-trident modprobe snd-pcm-oss

and for the LAN stuff alias eth0 sis900 alias eth1 sis900

So do I edit/delete any of that or leave well alone? ;-)