[Alsa-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc2] ALSA: PCMCIA sound devices shouldn't depend on ISA

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:46 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:58:00PM +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
> > Note that the vxpocket must be hotplugged to be recognised.  
> > Cold-plugging it (having it already in the computer when booting) is not 
> > sufficient.
> 
> Seems the driver needs a firmware which it cannot find:
> 

This hotplug/coldplug issue is a relatively minor problem.  The real
problem is that it would not work at all (completely silent failure, did
not even try to load firmware, no messages from driver) without
CONFIG_ISAPNP.

Lee