[SLUG] isapnp, possibly last visit, no harm in hoping

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> I think I mentioned that I downloaded isapnptools, from freshrpms
> (several references in lpic books and sites, and I wanted to
> understand
> it), and they installed quite sweetly with ./configure, make, make
> install (on Red Hat 7.3).
> Tried pnpdump today.  It did a lot of writing that told me where it
> had
> visited, and concluded that I didn't have any plug and play ISA
> components.
> Experimenting with ISA modem, moved the jumpers around to make it PNP,
> rather than the jumpers indicating this serial port and that irq.
> pnpdump re-run then found this PNP modem component, and wrote an
> isapnp.conf file (pnpdump > isapnp.conf).  OK, I can now use pnpdump,
> and make an isapnp.conf with all the lines commented out, but it would
> be an immense labour to find out what they all mean, what they all do,
> and then make a proper isapnp.conf file that would configure PNP ISA
> cards at boot time.
> So I'm still pretty puzzled about this.
> Conclusion: only follow me down this labyrinth if you intend to go
> right
> to the end, then tell me how the last bit goes.
> Martin

LOL, in the LPI review discussion, some IBM Linux humming-head said he
wondered whether we still needed to understand isapnp.

Personally, I've moved on to other challenges, but if I had the time
I'd be doing what you're doing :-)

J