on 21/8/2001 7:27 AM, S. Krishnan at sri_krishnan@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.