Is linux a plug and play OS?

[Scott Becker]

This was with 8 and 9, I just joined this list (After finding out about 
RHL Project). I think I'll download Severn and test it out. I had an 
issue with 9 with the dvorak keyboard layout, I'll see if it still 
appears and track it down.

    Scott Becker


Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Scott Becker (scottb at bxwa.com) said: 
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>>Several times I've had difficultys bringing up eth0 after an OS install 
>>and found that setting "Plug and play OS" to "no" in the bios setup 
>>would cause Kudzu to find the nic and everything worked. This helped 
>>with 3 diffenent nics, including a 3c905c with rh9 and a sound card.
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>Is this with Severn or 9? There was some unneeded code removed after
>9 shipped that would cause this.
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>>Is far as I can tell the bios was assigning an IRQ and/or IO address 
>>after I made the change so that the device was ready for linux (kudzu) 
>>to use. Does linux normally handle this or does the bios need to set 
>>this way normally?
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>Resources are assigned when pci_enable_device() (or whatever the kernel
>function is, I forget) is called, if they aren't set before.
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>Bill
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