[Gllug] simple lan

[Nix]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Leigh Mason stated:
> when i read the output from 'dmesg', the 'eepro100' driver loaded and
> detected the hardware but it said that the 'PCI BIOS' has not enabled the
> device! so i went into the bios and discovered that the primary IDE adapter
> had its 32 bit i/o disabled!

Oh.

Turn off `plug and play OS' in the BIOS. It gets in the way, in ways
like, well, like what you've just seen. Only Win95 needs it.

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