IMHO, it's much easier to build ISA Plug 'N Play support into the kernel, or load it as a module, then to use the old ISAPNP tools. For one thing, on my old computer, the ISAPNP tools couldn't properly configure my SB AWE64, but the kernel could. No editing of files is required with the kernel code. In fact, I consider the ISAPNP tools to be obsolete since the kernel has supported ISA PNP from 2.4.X onwards.