When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their program to do its job during boot-up. Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or off? Nev
It should be turned off in any Linux distribution. PNPOS option in the bios is only used by Windows. Linux/BSD don't deal well with it and don't make use of it in any way. * Neville Cobb (nevcobb@bigpond.com) [010109 12:16]: =>When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to =>turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their =>program to do its job during boot-up. => =>Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or =>off? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:brosenb@suse.com *************************************** SuSE Inc. 580 Second St Suite 210 Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A Tel: 1-510-628-3380 EXT:5086 Fax: 1-510-628-3381 *************************************** "My opinions are not a reflection of the opinions of SuSE Inc."
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
It should be turned off in any Linux distribution. PNPOS option in the bios is only used by Windows. Linux/BSD don't deal well with it and don't make use of it in any way.
I have mine turned off and my DSL works, whcih was a probelm at first. Now another PnP problem. It was all working very well, but then the IRQ of my NIC suddenly changed to 15, knocking out my second IDE channel. Now the CD drive is unavailable. Does anyone have an idea how to change the IRQ for the NIC? Will putting it into a different slot work? Is there a config file or the like that I could change? -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear@sirius.com rrea@askjeeves.com http://www.sirius.com/~rear
Hi all, I wish I had known this last summer. The next time some clueless wonder like me tells you that his PCI BIOS has assigned his network card an IRQ of zero just tell him to =>turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting. Now I have a network card that works. It did change alot of my other irq's. I had to reconfigure the modem and the net card's irq did seem to change upon subsequent reboots but as you can see I can get online now and I seem to be able to mount all other devices cd-rom floppy zip hdb1. Doesn't this mean that Linux needs a friendlier BIOS setup tool. Yes, I learned alot. Yes, I had fun. Yes, Yast2 was absolutely no help whatsoever. Now I can find out all abput networks. Thanks, Peter Ben Rosenberg wrote:
It should be turned off in any Linux distribution. PNPOS option in the bios is only used by Windows. Linux/BSD don't deal well with it and don't make use of it in any way.
* Neville Cobb (nevcobb@bigpond.com) [010109 12:16]: =>When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to =>turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their =>program to do its job during boot-up. => =>Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or =>off? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:brosenb@suse.com *************************************** SuSE Inc. 580 Second St Suite 210 Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A Tel: 1-510-628-3380 EXT:5086 Fax: 1-510-628-3381 *************************************** "My opinions are not a reflection of the opinions of SuSE Inc."
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Neville Cobb wrote:
When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their program to do its job during boot-up.
Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or off?
Keep it of but you mayw ant to check the mail archives also since there was a question similiar before -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free
Neville Cobb wrote:
When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their program to do its job during boot-up.
Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or off?
Nev
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Thanks for all your answers. I didn't know it was the same for all linux distros. Nev
Hmm, dont know , but turning it off wont hurt , if you need it for the linux plug and play tool you could allways turn it on. Thats the one used for soundcards ect... At 07:18 AM 1/10/2001 +1100, Neville Cobb wrote:
When I was running Mandrake the documentation advised that I needed to turn off the 'PlugNPlay OS INstalled' setting in my bios to allow their program to do its job during boot-up.
Is there any such requirement under SuSE - should it be turned on - or off?
Nev
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Ben Rosenberg
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Bob
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Neville Cobb
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Peter
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