Depending which BIOS you have on your motherboard, you may be able to get it to do the plug and play setup for you. If it is a pnp card and you are not being given io and irq dets by the bios, then the bios is assuming that you have a pnp enabled os and ignoring the cards. Just hop into the bios, under pci/pnp config you should have a line like "pnp os installed?" which could be set to no. Now reboot and the bios should give you the info you need. Of course if your running 2.4 kernel, generally the dmesg | more idea should work much more thoroughly
Mike
>
> From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 04:38:35 +0100 (BST)
> To: nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [nottingham] io and irq
>
> Hi,
>
> Also remember that there are some nasty ISA PNP NICs about. You might want
> to download and run the DOS utility for whatever card you have just to see
> what parameters exactly are setup on the card and turn off PNP - I know
> things have moved on recently but I still personally prefer it turned off.
>
> As to previous remarks, I actually quite like some ISA network cards, it's
> just that a lot of them were crappy. One of my home routers in Reading
> works quite nicely with three ISA network cards (Intel/3com) but only
> after a lot of twiddling in the supplied utilities.
>
> [OT]
>
> On the subject of networking, if anyone is having ADSL issues today would
> they please drop me a line - my home link is ok, but another seems dead.
>
> Jon.
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