> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I've been working on configuring my soundcard for use in NetBSD. 
>  Now, I have a Creative SB AWE64 PnP card.  Here is a line from my dmesg:
> 
> isapnp0: <Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0022, , WaveTable> port 0x620/4 not 
> configure
> 
> Now, to my understanding this is one of the cards that is supported by 
> NetBSD.  So, I went to /dev and ran "./MAKEDEV all" to enable /dev/audio 
> /dev/sound /dev/mixer.  Now, when I send anything to /dev/audio (ex: cat 
> test > /dev/audio) I get a 'Device busy' error and when I try to play 
> anything under KDE nothing happens.  I'm all out of ideas.  I've heard 
> that I may have to recompile the kernel in order to enable sound.

It appears that you don't have this device enabled in your kernel. Recompile
your kernel with the device for your card enabled. My guess is that you will
need the following line in your kernel configuration file

sb* at isapnp? 

cheerio Berndt