Denis Havlik wrote:
>
> :~>Legacy devices for the ISA bus won't even fit on my last three
> :~>mobos, and PnP was rightly named "plug N' Pray" by most techs
> :~>I know, IMHO, so I am not very worried about the 3c509B I just
> :~>rid myself of.
>
> ISA PnP? Uff. No wonder it does not work properly: Pixel denies the
> existence of these peskies. :-/
>
> ISA PnP devices == trouble, and while this particular card (well,
> actually most of them) may be made to work, my advice is to trow them
> away: One day we may have a good support for winmodems, but I doubt that
> we will ever see really good (==no problems) support for ISA PnP.
Oh, I wouldn't quite say so: I've been using an ISA PNP card
(SB AWE 64) in Linux for quite a long time (several years)
and the user-mode isapnp utility works quite well for my taste.
OTOH, I never quite got the hang of the PNP stuff (incl ISA PNP)
now integrated in 2.3 and even lately in 2.2.x kernels, so
I still de-activate it in the kernel and use the user-mode stuff.
One thing I agree, though, is that it is probably hopeless to make
this stuff work properly in an _install_ program.
In other words, it does work, but one has to invest in a little
RTFM first ...
Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will
become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_
any ISA slot ...
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
