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Re: vaio 505JE and ethernet + usb



I'm not normally one to reply to myself, but this seems to have worked.
I unset CONFIG_PNP and the network card now works just fine when the
laptop is not set for ``Plug And Play OS.''  Thanks!

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Seth Daniel wrote:
> I have CONFIG_PNP set.  Are you saying that I shouldn't have that set? 
> I'll try it and see what happens.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:46:08PM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000, Seth Daniel wrote:
> > > Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that
> > > the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned
> > > off in order to use USB and sound.  The problem is that when this
> > > option is turned off I can't configure the internal ethernet card
> > > w/o the laptop completely hanging (yes, hanging).  With the option
> > > turned on I can run pump, or ifconfig w/o any worries.
> > 
> > I haven't encountered this problem. Did you compile your kernel with
> > CONFIG_PNP set? If so, maybe that's your problem.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hugo Haas <hugo@larve.net> - http://larve.net/people/hugo/
> > If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. -- Homer J.
> > Simpson
> > 
> > 
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