Colony 4 report on old hardware

[Martin Pitt]

Hi azz!

azz [2005-09-05 21:22 -0400]:
> On systems with isa sound cards, some sound modules need to be loaded
> by hand (snd-es1688, opl3).  I was told that this was because it is no
> longer safe to probe for these devices since it may cause the kernel to
> lock up.

Right, ISA cards cannot be detected by the relatively safe hotplug
mechanism.

> There are already bugs filed about these issues.  Since the use of
> older hardware is probably not as great as newer devices, and the
> solution to these problems probably lies in significant changes to the
> linux/ubuntu infrastructure, is it feasable to continue to file bugs
> for such hardware?

Bug filing is always fine, it's rather a question if there is anybody
who can and wants to fix it. :-)

> Also, my prism2_usb device is not configured by the networking tool. 
> 
> I must install linux-wlan-ng and then configure my connection by hand
> by running a script which I copy into /etc/hotplug/usb/prism2_usb:

It's actually much easier than that. Just add something like the
following into /etc/network/interfaces:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
   wireless_mode managed
   wireless-essid your-ess-id

Then you can use the card with all standard tools (sudo ifup wlan0,
netapplet, and you can even configure it with the networking tool).

Martin

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