Enough lurking :) This newbie has questions, but we'll start with some answers.
Check out the following: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp/ It involves patching the kernel to provide pnp support directly within the kernel, therefore eliminating the need for isapnp completely. He initially designed it for SB cards. here's a quote from the website: > What hardware does it support? > > The 0.1 and 0.2 patches support the SB16 PnP, Vibra16 PnP > SB32/AWE32/AWE64 PnP, including the Game port and IDE parts of these > devices, with a driver (kernel) patch. > > The 0.3 patches support these with driver patches, but have the added > capability of supporting most other devices implcitly or indirectly - > enable automatic configuration of all PnP devices to use this. HTH On 8 Apr 99, at 23:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Need isapnp early in boot. How?: > Hello- > > My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives > off the > single channel IDE controller. If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the > CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. > > Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help. I currently get > messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things > work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS). I've checked the > settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2. > > How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card? Should I put the script > in rc.boot, or elsewhere? > > Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically > initialize the IDE > port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which > isapnp > doesnt address on a cold boot? > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > Kenward Vaughan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > ============================== Jan M. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E 5316 B90A 93CE 6696 Thought for the day: The only thing that hurts more than paying income tax is not having to pay income tax.
