On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:36:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Some drivers "probe" for their hardware by attempting to access various > ports. In a few pathological cases, the probing by one driver will put > hardware belonging to another into a state that crashes or locks up the > system. This is one of the major headaches of automatic hardware > detection.
I see. This is what happened to me once when I tried to load some network module (which was obviously the wrong one) -> machine got locked up. I then rebooted and restarted the process of installing ... (not so bad as partitioning was already done ...) Sven