[ale] SOLUTION FOUND! [ale] The OdDesT lINuX prOBleM eVeR . . .

[Kilroy, Chris]

you actually are supposed to have that to NO for Windows as well :)


->Guru AWARD goes to "Bill Sirinek"
->
->I had been messing with Windows 98 on the box, and set the 
->Plug and Play OS 
->setting in the BIOS to "YES." An ancient Linux secret is to set that 
->particular setting to "No."
->
->As soon as I changed the setting and rebooted, the LAN card 
->was recongnized.
->-- 
->Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
->Drew Brown
->http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
->
->Bill said:
->On Wednesday 14 August 2002 15:48, you wrote:
->> How about fixing your time/timezone? ;-) Your message is 
->dated one hour
->> ago.
->>
->> My guess about the odd problem... are you making sure you DISable
->> everything you arent using? For example, I disabled my 
->onboard serial and
->> parallel in BIOS to reduce the likelyhood of IRQ conflicts causing
->> hardware not to get detected. I dont use them anyway...
->>
->> It's worth a shot.
->>
->> Bill
->>
->> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
->> > I have a box.
->> >
->> > 1. I installed RedHat 7.3 on the box. Everything works.
->> >
->> > 2. I installed Windows 98 on the box. Everything works.
->> >
->> > 3. I think I installed RedHat 7.2 on the box in the past. 
->Everything
->> > worked.
->> >
->> > 4. I recently installed RedHat 7.2 on the box. LAN card 
->did not get
->> > detected.
->> >
->> > 5. I switched LAN cards to a 3com card. LAN card did not 
->get detected.
->> >
->> > 6. I re-installed RedHat 7.2 on the box. LAN card did not 
->get detected.
->> >
->> > 7. I took the RedHat 7.2 drive and put it in a DIFFERENT box.
->> >Â Â Â  Kudzu detected everything. Everything works fine.
->> >
->> > 8. I put the RedHat 7.2 drive back in the original box.
->> >Â Â Â  Kudzu detected everything BUT the LAN card.
->> >
->> > Can anyone tell me how to get the LAN card recognized?
->> > --
->> > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
->> > Drew Brown
->> > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
->> >
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