ISA autodetect is a bad and very dangerous thing.
The reason autodetect can be performed with EISA and PCI is because they
both enumate connected hardware. ISA doesn't, and is just a raw bus.
Autoprobing in ISA address space is bad since you can crash other cards.
This is not poor, but is actually VERY sane.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Slug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Are distro's no longer supporting 486's
> I did notice speaking of no longer supported hardware that redhat 6.2
> didn't detect my ISA network card, and as a consequence wouldn't set it
> up. Well not automaticlly anyway.
>
> This is kind of poor in my opinion.
>
> Jason
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