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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] 3rd times the charm apparently...
  • Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:11:03 +1100

Hi Folks,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:24:01 -0600 (CST)
James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Samual Acorn wrote:
>
> > what i do want to work is the DEC etherworks 3 NIC... works fine in
> > the 'doze but ewrk3.o from slackware 4 doesnt seem to want to work....
> > (it finds the card and installs but ping wont even make the activity
> > light blink... port and IRQ are set to the same that are being used in
> > the 'doze)
>
> Which BL3 are you using? In any case, a module from Slack 4.0 wouldn't
> work because it uses a different kernel (it uses 2.2.6). Previous BL3
> releases used 2.2.16, so if you're trying this with something prior to
> 3.40, you'd want modules from Slack 7.1--which uses the same 2.2.16 kernel
> those previous versions of BL3 use. If you're trying this with 3.40, you
> need modules from Steven's site: he specially compiled a kernel for
> 3.40--the 2.2.26 kernel. He has modules to go with it at his download
> site. Based on which version you use, give one of these alternatives a
> try.

To get the sound package working, you need to edit the /usr/bin/sndsetup
script to point to the address of the modules loaded, i.e. change /2.2.16/
to /2.2.26/sound/

It works for me, one of the first things I looked at. :)

Regards,
Ron

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