Subject: Re: grumpy keyboard.
To: Carrie Jones <carrie@cjones.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/28/2005 17:07:13
In message <41FAB70D.8000501@cjones.org>, Carrie Jones writes:
>So, I went poking around in my bios.
>
>It says it's a Phoenix BIOS setup utility and that the BIOS Version is 
>F.12 with a KBC version of 31.31. Sorry to say I have no idea what that 
>means, but practically speaking, it means no way for me to select 
>anything with the plug and play componets. I looked through all four 
>menu selections (main, security, advanced, and tools). None of them 
>mentioned anything about plug and play. The only thing I saw that came 
>even close was a selection under advanced about what parallel port mode 
>I was using.
>

This option often masquerades as an operating system type option.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb