[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

[Simeon Johnston]

> 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 just scrap the 486 as it is too old and outdated.

Dlink and 3com have always worked great for me.  And a 486 is a pretty 
snappy machine if you do it right.
:-)
Mail server...
IRC server...
Xterminal to your REAL machine...

Or I'd take it if I didn't already have  a stack of these things.

>> On Tuesday 26 February 2002 18:10:
>>> 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.

Dunno but I thought Kudzu would do ISA.  Not positive bout that though.
Or isapnp if you wanna.  \/

>> 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.

I've never had problems with ISA cards.  They have always worked after 
loading the modules or after a little irq config if there was a problem 
(3com utilities / onboard jumpers).

sim