Re: sb16 isa non-pnp problems

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:26:49AM +0200, John Bäckstrand wrote:
> Ive been trying to get my sb16 isa non-pnp working on a
> old 486, it has got two isa slots.
> 
> Ive checked the config of both my two NICs (tried two
> different ones), and the config on my sb16, no
> conflicts, and I am sure that I set the correct
> parameters. I also tried a pnp isa sb16 (vibra). Ive
> tried 2.2.20 and 2.4.17, both compiled in and module,
> but not every possible combination though.
> 
> The problems Im seeing is for the pnp card that it isnt
> detected at all, even if I do modprobe sb io=0x220
> dma=1 irq=5, I guess that is because I cant seem to be
> able to configure it using pnp, isapnp didnt print
> anything and the conf-files seemed very long-winded.

I still have a SB16 ISA non-PNP around here and used it until a
few months ago.  It always worked perfectly.  It worked with 2.4,
2.2, 2.0 and older.

In my lilo.conf I had: append="sb=0x220,7,1,5"

So io=0x220, irq=7, dma=1 and dma16=5

Kurt