[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

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RedHat 6.2. Kernel is 2.2.14-5.0. Anything else I will have to
default to my brother, if he sees this, because he installed it all,
and I was not around then. 


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From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
To: "geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?


> On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:33, Geek wrote:
> > Ok, I have tried for weeks, on and off, to get my Linux box to
> > see changes in hardware. If I take out all but the video card,
> > nothing is seen as changed. When I add a half dozen NIC's and a
> > sound card, nothing is seen as changed. Is there a way to
> > manually see things as changed? Or a program executable at the
> > command line that can force it to seek out new hardware? This is
> > a last ditch effort to get Linux to work on this, and next
> > options are either throw the machine out, or install OpenBSD.
> > Thanks.
> 
> This is WAY too slim on information for me to offer any
> constructive suggestions.  Kernel version?  Distribution?  How did
> you get the kernel binary?  Things like that...
> Greg
> 
> -- 
> Portland, Oregon, USA.
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