Pnp isn't perfect under any os. Greg On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:47:35AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > <smile> That's huccum I'm having my local guru put a NIC card in > *before* the people come on Wednesday to put the DSL in. We want a > NIC card that is not P&P, or at least can be turned off. Once the > card is turned off, the IRQ and addy is stable, and you can tell Linux > where it is. I've learned through experience that P&P devices do > not work well in Linux. They *can* work, but it takes the devil's own > time to make them work! This is especially true if you're running a > dual booting machine like I am. First you have to go into Windows and > find out what the addies and IRQ's are. Then you have to go back into > Linux and tell Linux where Windows has placed the stuff. It's a royal > pain in the anatomy! > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
