Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:36:25 +0000 From: Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing hardware conflicts during install (was "") Message-ID: <200201021731.SAA26210@smtp.hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C327C6C.3060108@potentialtech.com> References: <IDEJJKLDPPANPOBFHCKIOEEICDAA.alex@djgateway.com> <3C327C6C.3060108@potentialtech.com>
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Sometimes you can get hardware conflicts. I myself had some IRQ conflicts, the solution was to tell the BIOS that I didn't have a plug and play system. Simple put plug and play consists out of two parts -resolving hardware conflicts -recognising the different hardware By telling the BIOS that I didn't have an PnP system, I instructed it to resolve the hardware conflicts. FreeBSD is able to recognise the hardware, but not to resolve hardware conflicts, so on this way all part of PnP where taken care of. If you also run Windows on your system: it will work fine with this BIOS setting. Simon Siemonsma On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:20, you wrote: > Alex Sommerfeld wrote: > > I'm reading you documentation on installing freebsd. I'm at the Resolving > > Driver Conflicts Stage in the kernel config. My question is how do I > > resolve these conflicts? I do know how to change the port address's that > > are conflicting with each other. > > > > The documentation says if I don't know what they should be to place a -1. > > However it will not allow me to place a '-1' in the port address field. > > Should I disable the conflicting hardware? What should I do, the > > documentation is slightly dim at what I should do. > > Generally speaking, all that's required is that you disable hardware that > is not present in your machine. This will generally pare down everthing > for you and you'll have no conflicts in the end. Follow the instructions > on the screen to disable drivers for any hardware that isn't present in > your computer and then continue from there. You'll seldom need to worry > about changing port addresses, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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