[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

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Out of a dozen cards(the NIC's that is) I have been unable to even
find the maker of 10. The other two are D-Link and 3Com. The sound
card shows up as a generic creative labs. As I posted, I will pry
just scrap the 486 as it is too old and outdated. 


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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Sydelko" <andrew at sydelko.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?


> On Tuesday 26 February 2002 18:10, you wrote:
> > Hmm. An ass in every crowd. These are ISA cards, not PCI, and I
> > was not expecting a windows like pop up saying it was installing
> > drivers, but I have found no other way other then reboot to have
> > new hardware recognized, which, what a shock, is why I was asking
> > if there was a way to do a hardware check in the command line.
> > Thanks for the 4 Kb of info I will never read.
> 
> Since you are running RedHat 6.2, we'll assume you are using a 2.2
> kernel. If that's the case, what type of ISA card is it? If it's a
> sound card, you  need to use the isapnptools to get things to work
> right. Your best bet might  be to upgrade to either a 2.4 kernel or
> upgrade to the latest RedHat. The 2.4  kernel handles ISA cards
> better than 2.2.
> 
> --andy.
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