On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
* Joe Hylkema (josephhy@wsu.edu) [20000229 20:13]:
And please set PnP OS to no in BIOS. This is for OSs like Windows 9X that like to do it all on their own. For Linux it's better to let the BIOS allocate appropriate resources (mainly IRQs).
This only became a problem for me after I got DSL. It worked fine in win$ but not in Linux and I couldn/'t find a way to get it to work. I knew I needed to turn of PnP but couldn't find a way to do it in the BIOS setup. No such item. Finally I looked again, and found an item called "Operating System" or some such, with choices Win 95, Win 98/NT 4, and Other. So I thought I would try other. I could always change it back if it were a disaster. But it did what I needed. DSL works now. So There are ways and ways of turning of PnP, some of them not clearly marked. This was an HP Pavilion 6330. Come to think of it, I shoudl post that to an HP support forum shouldn't I? -- 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 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/