[plug] reconfiguration

[Leon Brooks]

Brendan Whelan wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I come from a Solaris background, which means I can reboot -r and the box
> automagically sees new devices.  A linux box I have is now sporting a tape
> drive (on a SCSI card) and an extra network card.  Is there a lazy way
> (like reboot -r) of configuring these devices into the system?

modprobe devicetype (e.g. modprobe rtl8193) - but many things come
on-line automagically, unless you've recompiled a stripped-down kernel.

> BTW, I got a floppy drive error on startup - way back in the hw check.  Did
> I blow it up, or is there an interrupt / port conflict?  Can I tell from
> the console?

cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports

.etc...

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