On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:48, you 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.
Nope that is HotSwap and to date not available on any of the pc buses (dunno about PC104).
PNP was designed to avoid the decesion making about i/o addresses, interrupt and dma allotment. AFAIK they are supposed to have a small set of internal memory locations which can be queried for hardware info (the earliest pnp cards on isa used to have a serial eeprom with the config. Also the io address decoder is register programmable.