on 21/8/2001 9:59 AM, shailesh bhate at shailesh_bhate@infy.com wrote:
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.
Wow, that¹s news for me... PNP, I think, was pioneered with the Mac and excellently implemented on the NeXTStep... And it was meant for pluging in external peripherals, without having to restart the machine to use them...
This concept of eliminating the jumper things is cool, again, computing is too confusing, many times the same term is used for multiple different things, but still, I don't think it logical to call the jumper thing as PNP, it would rather be called AC - Auto Config ;-) OR also Avoid Config ;-P
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.
That technology "is" called PNP, also called Hot-Connect or Hot-Plug-In (now-a-days)
That¹s dangerous. Please don't misguide people...
I don't think so. No hard feelings!
No hard feelings here either... :-)
Warm Regards,
~Mayuresh