> Anyways, I had heard Plug and Play isn't much help to Linux but it hadn't
> managed to affect me until now. We went through a number of cards before
> we found one we could use. (Yes, I was using the compatibility sheets
> posted at Red Hat.) I suppose if MS can encourage hardware developers to
> adopt more proprietary standards such as PnP, Linux will always be at a
> disadvantage having to play catch up.
I've never had much trouble finding cards that worked. most of the 3com
cards do, as do the dec tulips...
> I know zilch about PnP as you can probably tell. What does it take for
> Linux to work with that stuff?
in my experience, taking it out of PnP mode and hand configuring it. You
can't do this with all cards, though..
For what it's worth, The current version of NT does not support pnp...
Vinnie
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