[Prism54-users] prism on laptop

[Michael Reid - CSCI/P2003]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> 
> depmod -a
> 
I don't think this is the problem, his error report show's that the module 
is found, but the module can't detect the hardware.

I've had this problem with a different piece of hardware--the device shows 
up ls lspci, but the module can't detect it. The problem in my case was an 
IRQ conflict, two devices had the same IRQ.

Try running lspci -v and examining the IRQ numbers. If the prism card has 
the same IRQ as anything else, this is likely the problem. If so, with a 
little research you should be able to find out how to tell insmod/modprobe 
to assign a free IRQ manaully (sorry, I don't know how to do this or I'd 
explain..)

Also, as the error message suggested, try looking at dmesg's output, or 
the system log for more clues.

Regards,
-Mike.