Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > I did "dmesg | less" and found some lines which showed that the floppy drive > was detected by the kernel, but the IO port address seemed to be in use. > The main culprit seemed to be that the PnP BIOS option was turned on in > the kernel shipped with Mandrake 8.1. So, recompiled the kernel without > the PnP BIOS support and the problem was solved.
Umm rather than turning off PnP support in the kernel why dont you turn off PnP support in the BIOS. The BIOS doesnt really do a good job with PnP devices. Mithun _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
