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

[ChangingLINKS.com]

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.
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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.
> >    Kudzu detected everything. Everything works fine.
> >
> > 8. I put the RedHat 7.2 drive back in the original box.
> >    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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