On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:47, Scott Becker wrote:
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 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?
This is normal behaviour; currently, Linux is not Plug-n-Play compatible
in a couple ways. I'm not sure on the technical details.
Iirc, Linux kernel 2.6 should be fully Plug-n-Play compatible, and can
have the PnP BIOS option set.
Note this doesn't mean Linux can't be "plug and play" now, only that
the
specific Plug-n-Play BIOS features don't work quite right.
Scott Becker
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