Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:44:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "hendrix77@" <hendrix77@cockatiel.aus.org> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Dan Odom <daniel@jimi.danodom.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001024055.208A-100000@cockatiel.aus.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970930234734.20611A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Andrew Gordon wrote: > > Speaking of plug and play, I am having an impossible time finding > > hardware for my FreeBSD and BSDI boxes. Nothing out there has jumpers > > any more, not even network cards. Where the heck does everyone find > > supplies in this era of Windows NT? > > Just because they have no jumpers, that doesn't mean you are forced > to use PnP. Certainly most ISA Ethernet cards can be configured by EEPROM > to reside at a fixed address rather than being PnP (usually by use of > a DOS utility). In some cases, this option is not clearly documented > (SMC EtherEZ for example - there is a command-line option to the > EZSETUP program to disable PnP, but if you go into the menu-driven > version you don't get that option). > We are home users of FreeBSD, we dont have windows 3.1 or 95 and find it annoying about cards that have no jumpers, I suppose we ideally should be harassing the hardware vendors for drivers. But it genuinely sucks that we went out and bought a SB16 compa tible soundcard and had to scrap it for a real SB or buy OSS to make it run since we dont have windows to run PnP config programs. I wonder is there no way to interface the pnp bios to do stuff or do you have to write code for each individual pnp card/dev ice ? Luke `
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