pnp was: Re: [MLUG] ethernet card install

[Ian Monroe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:

> > For a sound card (AWE32) I had to setup loadlin and boot linux from
> > DOS. HardDrake was then able to recognize the card. From then on, I didn't
> > need to reboot into windows first; going directly to Linux from Grub works
> > fine. For the soundcard to took lots of voodoo. For a while there the
> > network card wasn't working but the soundcard was.
> All you really had to do was run the pnpdump program and then configure 
> isapnp.  Worked for me every time with modems (my awe32 is not pnp and the 
> card I have in this box just works).  The pnp AWE64 doesn't work well even 
> under winblows (weirdo IRQs), though.

Well, I've tried my hand with pnpdump and such when I tried to install my
EtherEZ PNP NIC with Debian Linux (Mandrake is able to configure it
automatically) and loadlin certainly seems easier. I do actually have the
AWE64 PnP (its confusing since Linux doesn't see the difference b/t it
and AWE32 PnP), and just today a older windows game my sister was trying
to install came up wanting to know DMA and such, something I havn't seen
in windows since the 3.1 days. I havn't had any other trouble with it
though.

> > Windows it seems turns on hardware when you reboot into DOS mode.
> When you exit windoze, you simply quit the graphical shell.  The hardware 
> remains intialiazed.
> -- 
> -- Igor
> --

My machine does seem to do something more then just shutdown the graphical
shell when it reboots into DOS. Ever since I upgraded to 98 it locks up
occasionally at something about my mouse. Probably depends on how your drivers are setup.


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