[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Feb 26 17:44:58 CST 2002


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Geek wrote:
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> Hmm. An ass in every crowd. These are ISA cards, not PCI, and I was
> not expecting a windows like pop up saying it was installing drivers,
> but I have found no other way other then reboot to have new hardware
> recognized, which, what a shock, is why I was asking if there was a
> way to do a hardware check in the command line. Thanks for the 4 Kb
> of info I will never read. 

Are they supposed to be plug and play cards?  If so, that's your problem.
ISAPNP absolutely sucks.  Dump em for either non PNP isa cards or PCI cards.

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Joshua D. Boyd



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