Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:28:53PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I would greatly value other's experience with PnP cards. I have just > one, myself, and only just installed a 2.4 kernel on Friday to see > what the new interface is like. It took me most of the evening to > figure out how to re-

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:27:59AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:52:38PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > What is already handled by modutils? Loading the isa-pnp module? > > Configuring the PnP cards? > > Sorry, I wasn't talking about the same thing as you. But,

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:52:38PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > What is already handled by modutils? Loading the isa-pnp module? > Configuring the PnP cards? Sorry, I wasn't talking about the same thing as you. But, what you want to do can and should be done through modutils. By insert

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:27:20AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To complicate matters, the configuration logic may be compiled as a > > kernel module, meaning the module needs to be loaded before cards > > may be configured. However, the modutils i

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To complicate matters, the configuration logic may be compiled as a > kernel module, meaning the module needs to be loaded before cards > may be configured. However, the modutils init script runs AFTER > isapnptools. One suggestion is to simply load

configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've recently adopted the isapnptools package. This package is most useful for 2.2 kernels. However, one of the bug reports (#71007) has a proposal for making it useful with the 2.4 kernel. In kernel 2.4, ISA PnP configuration can be done using the kernel. When enabled, this kernel option p