Bruce Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyways, I had heard Plug and Play isn't much help to Linux but it hadn't
>managed to affect me until now. We went through a number of cards before
>we found one we could use. (Yes, I was using the compatibility sheets
>posted at Red Hat.) I suppose if MS can encourage hardware developers to
>adopt more proprietary standards such as PnP, Linux will always be at a
>disadvantage having to play catch up.
>
>I know zilch about PnP as you can probably tell. What does it take for
>Linux to work with that stuff?
My short experience has been great. I disabled PnP in the CMOS on my Award
BIOS PCI motherboard and all cards are detected automatically and without
conflicts. This includes video, ethernet and two SCSI cards (modem is
external). I haven't had to set any IRQs or i/o addresses.
>
>Bruce Tong
>Systems Programmer
>Electronic Vision / FITNE
>
>mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.ev.net/fitne
>
>
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