Linux, Internet Cafe, Haiti...
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 17 05:00:10 UTC 2006
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Robert Brockway wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>
> ------------- snip ----------------------------------
>
>>> Most of the computers came from the Canadian Government, with NT4.0 and
>>> the dx'es from the University of Ottawa with Novell something or other and
>>> Win3.1. All the computers have network cards, some with co-ax and others
>>> not. All are ISA of course.
>>
>> Yay. Just pray they don't use isaPnP. That never worked properly.
>
> Is that an issue with the 2.6 kernel? I have an ISA pnp SoundBlaster and
No, it goes way back. The last time I use isaPnP was probably a 2.0 or
2.2 kernel but the real problem was in the hardware implementation. If
that wasn't working the kernel couldn't do too much about it.
> Debian unstable magically started to support it after I had got tired of
> configuring it.
Sometimes it will work perfectly but often it won't. Overall I found it
to be a net waste of time.
Cheers,
Rob
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