Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:52:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Is Plug-n-Play capibility supported in Linux? |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Robert Butler wrote:
> I'm going to port the Win95 plug-n-play network card driver to UNIX > systems. Just wondering where I can get the information about it? Any > pointers will be highly appreciated. I've heard something called "hot > swap" is it the plug-n-play alike function?
'the Win95 plug-n-play network card driver' ?!? No wonder 95's networking sucks so bad! Only one driver! :) :) :)
I'll assume you ment 'Im going to port the driver for a specific card to Linux is PNP supported?'. Yes, ISAPNP devices are supported, there is a userspace util that sets their location. Yes, PCI devices are supported and are fully PNP. Just look at the excelent drivers for 3com cards. :)
Now? What network card is this? I'm not aware of too many network cards Linux DOESN'T support (I beleve it supports quite a few more then NT)?
Also, unless this card is wildly differnt from other cards out there, it would probably be alot easier to modify an existing driver then to port a windows driver.
More information would be greatly appricated. :)
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