From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 23:58:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00504 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA27814; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:58:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:58:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modems. In-Reply-To: <85hg45c7ev.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Apr 1998, Dave Marquardt wrote: > > > The FAQs and handbook are a little sparse on PnP, unfortunately. > > > > 2.2.6 was the first release with PnP. If there are gotcha's by all means > > let us know so we can put them somewhere, even if the only place we have > > is my brain. :) > > Well, when I said it was sparse, I guess I should have said "Almost > nothing at all." Seriously, I cvsup the doc stuff the same time I > cvsup'd 2.2.6-RELEASE, and there's a section in the FAQ on how PnP > devices are detected and initialized, but not really the mechanics of > playing with the USERCONFIG stuff in the kernel after booting with -c. > I would have thought such an important new feature would be better > documented. Oh well, I can understand how one runs out of time. The > pnpinfo and pnp and dset man pages are okay, but if you're not all > that familiar with Plug n Play stuff, they don't quite tell you what > to do. The only documentation you really _need_ is how to enable it -- compile ``controller pnp0'' into your kernel. Hey, it's Plug&Pray, it's supposed to Just Work, right? :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message