Re: PnP in 2.2 ?

[David Howells]

> Things like sound cards pose more of a problem especially if there is a
> cdrom hanging off the sound card.  The sound card isn't too much of a
> problem to comile as a module.  It is that cdrom or harddrive or whatever
> off the ide port on the card that is.  I think the solution I heard was to
> boot, use isapnp, use the same kind of trick labtop users used to redetect
> ide devices on a pcmcia slot.  Not what I would call an elagant solution.

My configuration manager in it's latest incarnation (albeit only for 2.0.30 at
the moment), has a patch for the IDE driver to allow it to automatically
detect and configure both PCI and PnP IDE devices.

David Howells