LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, David Rose wrote:

> I spent half an hour pulling boards out of my machine before I
> remembered I'd disabled the OS Plug-and-Play support through the BIOS.

Interesting.  One of the quad tulip systems I built this week was one of
the new Asus super socket7 boards with an Intel 233MMX CPU.  I'd initially
turned off the BIOS "plug & play OS" setting.  It worked fine for
installation of RH 5.2 over the network with a single Netgear installed.
After installation, when I slapped the other 3 boards in, none worked.
The tulip.o module loaded and saw the cards, but they did not receive
packets.  Turning on the "plug & play OS" BIOS setting fixed it.  What
exactly does that BIOS setting do?


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