ethernet card

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
22 May 2001 12:37:19 -0400


Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> writes:

> I disagree about this one!  If it thinks your OS supports PNP then the
> BIOS wont initialize non-boot device PCI devices as completely as if it
> thinks your OS is non-PNP.

Hmm, that's news to me.  Thanks for the heads-up.  I guess maybe
this doesn't happen (as often) under Linux because the kernel is
(more?) willing to do its own initialization of many PCI devices.