|> but when I try to insmod sb I get:
|>
|> Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o
|> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
|> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
|> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
I'm not sure if my own problem is related, but ..... one of my
frustrations since upgrading to potato has been that I lost PLIP. I
use (used to use) PLIP to connect my laptop to my desktop. All worked
smoothly under slink. But I haven't been able to make it work under
potato (the kernel is 2.2.17; PRINTER_SUPPORT and PLIP are configured
as modules; CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y).
If I do:
% rmmod lp
to unload the printer module, and check that it's removed:
% cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
Block devices:
2 fd
3 ide0
8 sd
65 sd
and then try to load the plip module, I get just this error message:
% insmod plip
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/plip.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/net/plip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
I know that I can (in principle) pass IO and IRQ values to some
modules using insmod, but (i) I don't see why insmod should not get
these right under potato as it did under slink (ii) the man-page for
insmod is mysterious about how this should be done (iii) as far as I
can tell, the default values that get used (IRQ 7 for a port on IO
0x378) are right.
I suspect that this must all have to do with the way support for
parallel port devices was re-organized in the 2.2 series kernels, but
knowing that much doesn't let me fix the problem.
If anyone could help, I'd be grateful, and with a bit of luck it might
help with the other poster's soundcard problem as well,
Jim
