[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

[Geek]

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I think some of them could be, but I suspect that is not the problem.
Nothing at all works, even cards created before there was PnP. I
think I will just toss this machine, and set up another one as the
wished for Router. Thanks anyway.


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From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?


> 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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