Bug#698700: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> If I remember correctly, ISA cards cannot be automatically detected.
> Thus automatic loading of the driver cannot be archived.
> So module has to be included in /etc/modules.

Well some ISA cards supported plug and play, so they could be detected
and configured.  Most ISA cards are not plug and play though.

Of course some can still be detected by probing, but that's not so safe
in all cases and involves loading the driver just to check in most cases.

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Len Sorensen