Copyright (c) 1998 by David S. Lawyer. Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this document. For corrections and minor changes contact the maintainer. Otherwise you may create derivative works and distribute them provided you:
1. Discuss it with the maintainer (if there is one). 2. Put the derivative work at the mirrored LDP Internet site (or the like) for free downloading. 3. License the work in the spirit of this license or use GPL. 4. Give due credit to previous authors and major contributors.
If certain words are trademarks, the context should make it clear to whom they belong. For example "MS Windows" (or just "Windows") implies that "Windows" belongs to Microsoft.
Much of the info in this HOWTO was obtained from the Internet, implications in books that may be obsolete, etc. While I haven't intentionally tried to mislead you, there are likely a number of errors in this document. Please let me know about them. Since this is free documentation, it should be obvious that neither I nor previous authors can be held legally responsible for any errors.
Please let me know of any errors in facts, opinions, logic, spelling, grammar, clarity, links, etc. But first, if the date is over a month old, check to see that you have the latest version. Please send me any info that you think belongs in this document.
I haven't studied in detail neither isapnptools nor David Howells' patches to the kernel. Nor do I fully understand how PnP is configured by the BIOS (it depends on which BIOS) nor how Windows9x updates the ESCD. Thus this HOWTO is still incomplete and may be inaccurate (let me know where I'm wrong). In this HOWTO I've sometimes used ?? to indicate that I don't really know the answer. Would you like to improve on (rewrite) and maintain this HOWTO? I'm looking for someone to turn it over to.
New versions of the Plug-and-Play-HOWTO should appear every month or so and will be available to browse and/or download at LDP mirror sites. For a list of mirror sites see: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/mirrors.html. Various formats are available. If you only want to quickly check the date of the latest version look at: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html.
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