Is linux a plug and play OS?

[Scott Becker]

So it is abnormal to have to tell the bios the OS is stupid. That's good 
to know. I'll try to reproduce it if it can with Severn and test it.

    scottb


Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Scott Becker (scottb at bxwa.com) said: 
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>>Several times I've had difficultys bringing up eth0 after an OS install 
>>and found that setting "Plug and play OS" to "no" in the bios setup 
>>would cause Kudzu to find the nic and everything worked. This helped 
>>with 3 diffenent nics, including a 3c905c with rh9 and a sound card.
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>Is this with Severn or 9? There was some unneeded code removed after
>9 shipped that would cause this.
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>>Is far as I can tell the bios was assigning an IRQ and/or IO address 
>>after I made the change so that the device was ready for linux (kudzu) 
>>to use. Does linux normally handle this or does the bios need to set 
>>this way normally?
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>Resources are assigned when pci_enable_device() (or whatever the kernel
>function is, I forget) is called, if they aren't set before.
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>Bill
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