Marcus Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Burak Serdar wrote:
>
> > Marcus Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > When I went to install Linux I was looking at the bios settings and
> > > one of them asked whether the OS I was using was plug and play
> > > compatible. Is Linux?
> > >
> > > tia,
> > >
> > > Marcus
> >
> > If you are installing a 2.0.x kernel, you should disable 'PnP OS
> > Installed' in bios setup. If you have any PnP cards, saying 'Yes' to
> > this may cause problems.
> >
> > BS
>
> Okay, let me see if I understand this correctly. I'm using the newly
> released official Debian 2.0 Hamm stable.
I don't know what is the kernel version for Debian 2.0, but I am quite sure
that it is a 2.0.x kernel (2.1.x kernel is development, and can be
considered unstable). You must do some tricks to use PnP cards in this
kernel. You may need to use isapnptools, or not. I have PnP cards, and I
can use them without isapnptools.
> The bios gives me a choice
> of PnP OS Installed and I should say NO. (I think the other option
> uses bios to set up cards).
If you say YES, bios assumes thet the cards will be reset by the OS. If you
say no, bios reset cards before boot, therefore you may access them. If you
have w95 or another OS, this may mean that the I/O port, IRQ and DMA
settings may be different for Linux and the other OS. No problem, it runs.
> So Linux is not Plug and Play
> compatible?
Kernel 2.0.x is not, but you can use PnP, as I said before. I heard that
2.2 will have PnP support.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
