On 24 August 2015 at 07:04, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the past I've always had good luck keeping a Live Knoppix CD/DVD > around for the inevitable virgin box I want to talk. Today I found a > "new" version Knoppix-7.2 CD, burned it, booted it in this box to check. > OK. A few hours later I booted my regular (B)LFS-7.2/POD-4.0, and the > onboard NIC was gone. lspci didn't find it. Tried an older system that > hasn't been played with. No NIC. Eventually I went under the covers > and did a hard CMOS reset, and it magically reapeared. (Obviously) Back > in the day I had DOS programs that could save/restore CMOS'. Is there > anything like that for Linux? I've generally had Plug-n-Play OS > enabled in the BIOS. Was that a mistake? I figured Linux would take > control of the HW anyway. Is Debian/Knoppix a "bad actor" now? > Maybe your hardware has coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/ support. You would then have complete control :-) Richard
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