Yes, Linux should autodetect it.
More correctly, Linux adjusts it's device database during hardware detection
so that the PCI/PNP drivers/modules can initialize the cards properly.
Without this, the card "hints" at how it wants to be configured, but the
hardware is never "set up" (loose terms here) so it is therefor not visible
to the OS as a hardware device.
sndconfig also does this with PNP/PCI sound cards creating the
/etc/isapnp.conf file from what it finds. If you do not run sndconfig your
card never gets "initialized".
Remember: autodetection and configuration of the serial port are two
different things. You still might have to use SETSERIAL, but I'll bet that
Linux is currently "initializing" the card to settings which you are NOT
using in SETSERIAL.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Cromwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 1:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.
Ok, but should Mandrake be able to autodetect a PCI
modem? As I said, I have never encountered a linux
distribution that was able to autodetect it. It shows
up fine if I do an 'lspci'.
Jon
--- Sebastian Dransfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jonathan Cromwell wrote:
>
> > I have not tried that, but am skeptical. Mandrake
> 7.1
> > (or any other distribution I have used) has never
> been
> > able to autodetect it. I don't believe that
> Mandrake
> > 7.1 has any PCI/PNP capabilities; I think it is
> > PNP/ISA only. Am I incorrect here?
>
> Yup. PCI/non-PNP doesn't exist. PCI was defined as a
> PNP standard, so all
> PCI cards has always been PNP. An the linux support
> has also been there.
>
> seb
>
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