Re: Is Plug-n-Play capibility supported in Linux?

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:22:03 +1200


On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 06:59:40PM -0700, Robert Butler wrote:

> I'm going to port the Win95 plug-n-play network card driver to UNIX
> systems. Just wondering where I can get the information about it? Any
> pointers will be highly appreciated. I've heard something called "hot
> swap" is it the plug-n-play alike function?

What net `Win95 plug-n-play network card driver' are you talking
about? And why does it need porting to UNIX?

Hot Swap means the ability to add/remove hardware whilst the machine
is running and now break stuff.

-cw

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