Questions

[Renaud Vernet]

Ciaran Mac Lochlainn wrote:
> Hi all, I've installed Ubuntu on a work server and I have a few 
> questions as I am new to Ubuntu and to debian based distros in general.
> 
> I have installed Ubuntu 5.04 on a server which has a Specialix io8 card 
> installed.  The card appears when I type "lspci" but the operating 
> system does not appear to support it.  The /dev/cuw* device nodes ahve 
> not been created, and the kernel module specialix.o (or specialix.ko) is 
> not present on the server.
> 
> Can I download the specialix module for this release?
> 
> The server also has a Travan tape drive installed, but there is no 
> device /dev/ht0 to access it.  Is /dev/ht0 the correct device name for 
> an IDE tape drive under Ubuntu?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ciarán
> 

I don't know where to download it, but still you can compile your kernel 
with the CONFIG_SPECIALIX flag.

Renaud