Sam 460LE, PCIe->PCI and SB128

Hello,

I wanted to add two more PCI slots to my Sam 460LE as the only one available is filled with SATA controller and I wanted to put my old SoundBlaster 128 PCI to use. I bought this PCIe->PCI adaptor, connected everything, but I do not seem to be able to use the SB128 card at all.

As I really am newbie, I describe the symptoms and skip concluding anything on my side:

- I have both sb128.audio in Devs:AHI and SB128 in Devs:AudioModes, however when I start the AHI pref, there isn't anything under Unit 0, 1, 2 or 4.

- I can see the card in utilities like Ranger

- When I connect serial terminal to Sam 460 LE then I see U-boot message "PCIe0 Link is not up"

Any suggestions? Do I have a bad kind of PCIe->PCI adaptor? Do I have to configure anything else that I missed?

Thank you!

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Yeh, there active and passive adapters.
the active adapters I believe requires drivers.
(and we don’t have any drivers)

@LiveForIt I was initially thinking, that maybe the adapter needs some drivers, but if that was the case, then probably Ranger would not see the SoundBlaster 128 PCI, because it wouldn't know anything about the PCI port on the adaptor, or would it?

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I’m not sure, it might be that some of the functionality is not available perhaps. Better read up on it, maybe it needs to be configured or something before use. Perhaps google the chip number and Linux, maybe you find something.

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it needs a driver.

https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:1b21-1080-1b21-1080

from the code it looks like it does handle IRQ's

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob ... rivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c