OK folks...I am a definate newbie so please bear with me as I discuss my
frustration. I come from a heavy MS background, but thought I would try to
bring a Linux box into my home network for fun. I bought Mandrake 7.2 this
weekend and attempted to install it in an older PC I had laying around.
I have an old 33.6 Kbs USR hardware ISA modem in my box. I installed
it as a plug and play device and made sure that my BIOS was set for no
P'n P OS installed. That way the BIOS could assign all ports and IRQs.
There's a procedure for setting up the hardware in the book but the ISA
MODEM was
Hey Devin,
Give this link a try and look under the "Isapnp" section. The author
gives a quite interesting argument as to why you should turn the
PNP option in bios ON, not off. This advice helped me a whole lot
in getting some of my PNP cards to work in LInux. Enjoy...
daniel in NJ...
