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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:08:32 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>
To:        smpatel@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   PnP devices under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <34C21AF0.DBD03056@globalnet.co.uk>

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Hi Sujal,
    I've been using your ISA PnP code from CD 3 on FreeBSD 2.2.5 and in
the README you asked for questions and/or comments, so here goes:

    I have 2 PnP devices in my PC, a Pine Megawave Gold sound card,
which is a cheap SB-compatible Yamaha OPL3-SA2 device, and a Pace 56
Voice modem (internal ISA card).

    Neither of these would work under FreeBSD until I found your code.
After patching the kernel, running pnpinfo, editing the kernel config
file, and building a new kernel the sound card now works :-), but I
still can't get the modem working :-(. The PnP probe finds the modem and
configures it, but the sio probes still can't find it.

    I've tried several (about 5) different sets of values in the cinfo[]
struct in pnp.c but still no success so I've attached a gzip'd tar
containing my pnp.c, the output from pnpinfo, and the output from dmesg
(booting with '-v') in the hope that you can help me.

    I've disabled the on-board COM2 (IRQ 3 0x2f8) so that the modem can
use it (this is what it uses under Win95, even with the COM2 port
enabled) and the mouse is on COM1 (IRQ3 0x3f8) which is found by sio0.

    I should add that the modem has worked twice under FreeBSD (without
your PnP enabler). I also run Win95 & NT4 on my PC and both times the
modem has worked has been after warm booting after using one of the
other OS's, although I haven't been able to identify exactly what the
circumstances were.

    On both these occasions I've logged onto my ISP (using User PPP) and
have achieved d/l speeds of over 5k/sec, but Windows can't even manage
4k/sec <g>. So I'm very keen to get the modem working properly under
FreeBSD.

    Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated, and you can
add the soundcard to the "known to work with" list.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Ovens

<markov@globalnet.co.uk>

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<TT>Hi Sujal,</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I've been using your ISA PnP code from CD 3
on FreeBSD 2.2.5 and in the README you asked for questions and/or comments,
so here goes:</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have 2 PnP devices in my PC, a Pine Megawave
Gold sound card, which is a cheap SB-compatible Yamaha OPL3-SA2 device,
and a Pace 56 Voice modem (internal ISA card).</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Neither of these would work under FreeBSD until
I found your code. After patching the kernel, running pnpinfo, editing
the kernel config file, and building a new kernel the sound card now works
:-), but I still can't get the modem working :-(. The PnP probe finds the
modem and configures it, but the sio probes still can't find it.</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I've tried several (about 5) different sets of
values in the cinfo[] struct in pnp.c but still no success so I've attached
a gzip'd tar containing my pnp.c, the output from pnpinfo, and the output
from dmesg (booting with '-v') in the hope that you can help me.</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I've disabled the on-board COM2 (IRQ 3 0x2f8)
so that the modem can use it (this is what it uses under Win95, even with
the COM2 port enabled) and the mouse is on COM1 (IRQ3 0x3f8) which is found
by sio0.</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I should add that the modem has worked twice
under FreeBSD (without your PnP enabler). I also run Win95 &amp; NT4 on
my PC and both times the modem has worked has been after warm booting after
using one of the other OS's, although I haven't been able to identify exactly
what the circumstances were.</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On both these occasions I've logged onto my ISP
(using User PPP) and have achieved d/l speeds of over 5k/sec, but Windows
can't even manage 4k/sec &lt;g>. So I'm very keen to get the modem working
properly under FreeBSD.</TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated,
and you can add the soundcard to the "known to work with" list.</TT>

<P><TT>Thanks in advance,</TT>

<P><TT>Mark Ovens</TT>

<P><TT>&lt;markov@globalnet.co.uk></TT></HTML>

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