The awe_wave driver in 2.2 looked at the common I/O ports for the card if no parameters were specified. The 2.4 driver currently does an ISAPnP probe, but doesn't fall back to the previous probing behavior, which means that users with working module configurations will have theirs broken on upgrade. The attached fixes it to fall back to 2.2-style behavior if no parameters are specified; if 'isapnp=1' is specified, it does not try to look for cards if the ISAPnP probe fails. Bill