[ILUG] Missing sound and network card drivers

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:37:10AM +0100, Peter Flynn came forth with:
> In a few cases it has detected the presence of the card *and* got them
> right, so obviously part of it work...but it's failing way too often. A
> manual attempt (via netconf or sndconfig) always gets the same type of
> failure (names differ but the error message is the same):
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/{dir/driver}.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
> 
> (where {dir/driver} is the relevant directory and driver module name
> for the driver you attempt to install.) This applies both for the sound
> cards and for the network cards. Clearly the configs are picking up a 
> stray value, or looking in the wrong place -- but where?
> 
> Currently sought: drivers (or pointer to the right one) for
> 
> a. 3-Com FE575C 10/100 PCMCIA network card
> b. 3-Com Etherlink III 3C509B network card
> c. ESS Maestro 3P PCI sound card
Just as a really stupid question, you are booting off the pcmcia.img floppy
image? Otherwise obviously you're going to have problems with the PC card...

the 509 should load okay. If you're really stuck, get a FreeDOS boot disk,
get the 3c5x9cfg files from 3com's site, and set the resources for the card.
then it should be picked up properly. The Plug and Play option isn't the 
greatest.

I'm not sure about the Maestro. I expect they didn't put the drivers in
or something like that?

L.
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