On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Phil wrote: > The PCI modems are fairly new, be on the look out for sound cards > too(ISA will eventually disappear from new motherboards thus the PCI > versions). I decided to go with this to free up a ISA slot... I only > have two, and one is ISA/PCI slot(shares the same case slot)! There is > little doubt in my mind that Linux would support PCI modems, the only > real deference is the hardware-level protocol they use(unless it like > win hardware). All that is needed is the PCI support, but then I run > into the problem with Plug and Play. If linux doesn't support PCI PNP, > I can't find the card, let alone use it. > > If shouldn't be too hard to add support for.. As few additions to the > pnpdumb detection code, and isapnp implementation to make PCI card > exist. I'm definitely going to speak with Diamond about this(to check > for "special" or non-standard uart/driver implementations). >
Does your system have a PnP-aware BIOS? This is the way to handle PCI PnP. The BIOS should recognizes the card and report it to Linux. I only have one PCI PnP device, a NE2000 clone, but Linux picked that up from the BIOS with no problem (Win95 had a fit with it, however). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
