[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

[Jochen Kunz]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Geek wrote:

> Hmm. An ass in every crowd. 
Thanks for the compliment. :-)

> These are ISA cards, not PCI
Aha. This is an other story. Have a look at that isapnp tools.
There should be a HOWTO. If the cards are not PNP the used resources 
like IO port, IRQ, ... must be compiled in the kernel or supplied
to the module when it gets loaded. Some drivers don't need these
parameters, they probe a fix range of IO ports or the like.
This depends highly on the particular driver.

If you have problems with multiple Ethernet cards you have to 
know that Linux stops searching for additional ISA Ethernet
devices, if it has found the first. You have to supply appropriate
parameters to the kernel to get all Ethernet interfaces recognized.
(See "append" in lilo.conf(5)). I think the details of this kernel
parameters are described in the Ethernet HOWTO. 
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tsch|_,
         Jochen

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