>on 21/8/2001 7:27 AM, S. Krishnan at sri_krishnan(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Are these cards PNP ?
>>
>> AFAIK, yes. generally, you can expect PCI cards to be
>> PNP. If you're getting one of the NE2000 PCI
>Krishnan, What do you mean by PNP in the context of PCI network cards?
>PNP - Plug And Play, was supposed to be a method for peripherals to get
>connected and start working without having to go through the hassles of
>restarting the machine.
AFAIK, PNP means that you don't have to manually set the jumper
settings, etc. on the card and the Interrupts, I/O Ports and DMA
settings are done automatically by the Operating System. If a card
allows itself to be configured this way, it is called PNP compatible.
>If you are trying to imply that you can do a PNP on a PCI network card,
I
>think there is something amiss, how can you plug in a PCI card into the
>machine while it is on?
I think that technology is not called PNP, its called hot-plugin or
something like that... don't remember the name.
> That¹s dangerous.
> Please don't misguide people...
I don't think so.
No hard feelings!
Regards,
Shailesh Bhate.