Messages in this thread | | | From | (Tom Lees) | Subject | Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name | Date | 3 Apr 1996 22:00:55 +0100 |
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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com) wrote: : On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, tpeters wrote:
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: > And why is it that jumperless hardware like the Gravis Ultrasound series : > soundcards, NE2000+ and compatible network cards, and VESA/PCI graphics : > cards can only be config'd under DOS? (don't answer - rhetorical)
: Worth answering, though: because it's cheap and easy to write a DOS : utility to program the things, and because nobody who wants to port the : utility to Linux has the time and/or information to do so.
Ahhh, but there _IS_ one. ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/utils/isapnptools-x.y.txt/tgz Latest version is 1.3.
-- Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
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