Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:36:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Some drivers "probe" for their hardware by attempting to access various
> ports. In a few pathological cases, the probing by one driver will put
> hardware belonging to another into a state that crashes or locks up the
> system. This is one of the major headaches of automatic hardware
> detection.
I see. This is what happened to me once when I tried to load some
network module (which was obviously the wrong one) -> machine got locked
up.
I then rebooted and restarted the process of installing ... (not so bad
as partitioning was already done ...)
Sven
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