[ltp] At a Standstill with 770z

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jon Flanders wrote:

> I would be curious to see a working ALSA config from modules.conf.
>
> Also, would ISAPNP need to be disabled at bootup? If so, how? Right now
> if I try to get modules.conf to see the card as a 42xx or snd-42xx, at
> bootup it goes right back to 46xx.
>

I have ALSA (1.0.3) working on my TP 560z (cs4236) without disabling ISAPNP in a 2.4.25 kernel.
I didn't achieve this with previous kernels (but that is not to say it cannot be done).

My modules.conf reads:

alias char-major-116 snd
options snd cards_limit=4
alias snd-card-0 scn-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 port=0x530 cport=0x538 fm_port=0x388 sb_port=0x220 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store

of course your port values may differ.
This is without MIDI support which is turned off with PS2. Otherwise I'd be wasting a precious irq on something I don't use.
I've had trouble before trying to run an OSS emulation free ALSA so I leave it in by default these days.

> I tried the IBM instructions  for the 600 and Redhat, the one with the
> symbolic link and script. I must have missed something because it didn't
> work.
>
> The pcmcia cards I have tried for wireless are a Belkin  PCMCIA WIRELESS
> NOTEBOOK CARD F5D6020, version 2,  and a D-Link DWL-650 Wireless Cardbus
> Adapter, which is recognized as an RTL8180. The Belkin is listed as
> unsupported at bootup and all my attempts to find a driver are to no
> avail.
>

When I had pcmcia working I used http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/
for this Belkin.

Have fun,
Duncan

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