On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:06:34PM -0400, adam b. wrote > isapnptools works okay, probably. > > I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten > them actually working before giving up. > > Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know > free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memory ranges for all your devices. They will > probe, but he'll come up with like 5 or 6 viable configurations, only 1 or > 2 of which might actually work (especially if you have a commercial > machine-in-a-box). Also, you _may_ have to put your devices in > Memory-Mapped mode (I've heard rumors to that effect). In this case, you > have to find a free memory range that's in the on-limits range for Debian. > Not too hard, but get the range from Debian.org before you go killing > things. >
Well, if you already have Win95 installed it's not that bad; you can use Window's autoprobing to do the work for you. Open Control Panel -> System, click on the Device Manager (? working from memory here) tab, find your PnP devices in the list, write down what works for Windows; reboot, use that configuration in /etc/isapnp.conf. I've yet to see a device that requires a memory-mapped area (other than for ROM or video memory, anyway). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
