Subject: Re: plug-and-no-play, grrrr.
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/2000 10:41:48
According to Nathan J. Williams:
>
>It looks like that should be matched by the existing isapnp pcic
>front-end, astonishingly enough.

Yes, I saw that digging around.

> Do you have "pcic* at isapnp?" in
>your kernel?
>

I *think* I did.  I shall double check this.

>
>The pnpbios stuff is complimentary to isapnp; pnpbios is used for
>devices built in to the system (so that the firmware always knows
>about them); isapnp is used for removable cards.
>

Hmmm interesting.  Obviously my motherboard has more PNP stuff on it
than it is admitting to in the documentation.  I got quite a few PNP
idstrings when I printed them out.

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