[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:33, Geek wrote:
> Ok, I have tried for weeks, on and off, to get my Linux box to see
> changes in hardware. If I take out all but the video card, nothing is
> seen as changed. When I add a half dozen NIC's and a sound card,
> nothing is seen as changed. Is there a way to manually see things as
> changed? Or a program executable at the command line that can force
> it to seek out new hardware? This is a last ditch effort to get Linux
> to work on this, and next options are either throw the machine out,
> or install OpenBSD. Thanks.

This is WAY too slim on information for me to offer any constructive
suggestions.  Kernel version?  Distribution?  How did you get the kernel
binary?  Things like that...
	Greg

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