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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have been trying to use an Adaptec isa scsi card for which I looked up 
the DOS driver (aspi2dos.sys) and the linux module (aha152x.o).  It has 
jumpers for IRQ 9 10 11 12 and port address 140 or 340.

A DOS diagnostic program (syschk) says IRQ9 is IRQ2 cascade and IRQ12 is 
PS/2 mouse so I tried 10 and 11 but it won't install ("installation 
failed"  as a device in config.sys).  Win98 says 10 and 11 are taken by 
PCI bus, so we removed the PS/2 mouse and Windows seemed to be happy with 
IRQ12 and address 340 ('no conflicts') but Windows won't detect the 
attached scanner, which it is supposed to do (the scanner works on another 
Adaptec card).

I tried setting PNP/PCI in BIOS setup to IRQ12 legacy (to keep this IRQ 
from being used by PCI/PNP devices) but this did not help.  There is no 
way to disable the PS/2 mouse port but I set it to auto instead of enabled 
and unplugged the mouse.

In linux I cannot insmod this module at all - "device or resource busy" - 
which, I read, means some IRQ or IO port conflict.

insmod aha152x io=340 irq=12

How do I tell which IRQs and ports are in use by linux?   I read you are 
supposed to use syslog (how?) or dmesg (which lists the IRQs used by the 
comports, 3 and 4, and by the IDE controller, 14).

I tried a scsi kernel (SW81 adaptec.s and SW71 zipslack.s) with no 
success.

By the way, iw appears to require modprobe which BL does not have.

Might this card be bad?