How To Deal With PnP Cards 4.
Many devices are PnP only with no option for disabling it.
Your BIOS must obviously support PnP to do this. To find out more about your BIOS, look on the Web. This will make the BIOS do the configuring instead of leaving it to the operating system. The ESCD not only stores the configuration of PnP devices but stores configuration information of non-PnP devices so as to avoid conflicts. Each time the BIOS starts up under Linux it should configure things this way.