Is linux a plug and play OS?
Scott Becker
scottb at bxwa.com
Wed Jul 23 20:59:27 UTC 2003
This was with 8 and 9, I just joined this list (After finding out about
RHL Project). I think I'll download Severn and test it out. I had an
issue with 9 with the dvorak keyboard layout, I'll see if it still
appears and track it down.
Scott Becker
Bill Nottingham wrote:
>Scott Becker (scottb at bxwa.com) said:
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>>Several times I've had difficultys bringing up eth0 after an OS install
>>and found that setting "Plug and play OS" to "no" in the bios setup
>>would cause Kudzu to find the nic and everything worked. This helped
>>with 3 diffenent nics, including a 3c905c with rh9 and a sound card.
>>
>>
>
>Is this with Severn or 9? There was some unneeded code removed after
>9 shipped that would cause this.
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>>Is far as I can tell the bios was assigning an IRQ and/or IO address
>>after I made the change so that the device was ready for linux (kudzu)
>>to use. Does linux normally handle this or does the bios need to set
>>this way normally?
>>
>>
>
>Resources are assigned when pci_enable_device() (or whatever the kernel
>function is, I forget) is called, if they aren't set before.
>
>Bill
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