linux newbie

[Ben Scott]

On 1/10/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I used to have a skanky old WD8013 card and the Linux driver
> needed to be told where to find it in I/O space and which
> interrupt to use or it would claim that I didn't have a NIC,
> so that might be the sort of problem you're having.  If the
> Windows driver is able to find it then you can probably bring
> up the Properties panel and find the info in question there.

  FYI, modern PCI hardware doesn't really work that way anymore.  Not
only does the PCI bus determine resource allocations, but with an
APIC, the interrupts can actually change depending on how the OS sets
things up.

  In theory, this is a vast improvement, and it usually is.  Normally,
the kernel knows all about the hardware, so you don't have to figure
this stuff out on your own.  The downside is that when one encounters
buggy hardware or firmware, you're really screwed.

-- Ben