Basically, your BIOS can provide PnP information, as well as your OS.

Pnp OS Installed is On = BIOS will not provide this info [because Windows prefers
not to receive it, and might get confused because it can see more of your hardware
than the BIOS can, sometimes]

Pnp OS Installed is On = BIOS will provide this information. Linux prefers to use
the BIOS as a basis for mush of its PnP work, so you should always turn this on,
even on dual boot machines.

Something nifty I learnt from doing an RHCE.

Mike

Ali BAYINDIR wrote:

> > After installing linux my sndcard and my ether stopped working
> >
> > Doing an
> >
> > # lspci -v
> >
> > I find out both devices have irq=0.
> >
> > How do I know which irq are free? and how do i assign a module a specific irq?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
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> I met with a similar problem on my computer.  It has Asus P3V133 MBoard with
> Awar bios.  When i enabled "PNP OS Installed" option in bios, my ethernet
> (Realtek 8029 PCI) doesn't work.
> I don't know what is the real problem but, disable this option.
>
> Regards...
>
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