From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 25 09:17:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20208 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bugs.us.dell.com (bugs.us.dell.com [143.166.169.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA20198 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@dell.com) Received: from ant (ant.us.dell.com [143.166.12.34]) by bugs.us.dell.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA12842; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:15:51 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980825111549.00718928@bugs.us.dell.com> X-Sender: tony@bugs.us.dell.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:15:49 -0500 To: Bill Paul , chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) From: Tony Overfield Subject: Re: PCI devices Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808231747.NAA18976@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:47 PM 8/23/98 -0400, Bill Paul wrote: > I sometimes see people > on mailing lists or newsgroups complaining that their PCI devices > don't work for some reason, and often someone follows up with > a suggestion to "disable plug & play| support. These people are > confused: PCI devices don't support Plug & Play (tm), so there's > nothing to turn off. The "Plug & Play support" in this case probably refers to the operating system, not to the PCI devices. The BIOS configuration, of some computers, has an option that tells the BIOS which kind of operating system the user has installed. This option tells the BIOS to only configure the PCI adapters that are necessary for booting and to leave the others mostly unconfigured. Microsoft claims their OS can be smarter about configuration than the BIOS can. So it is accurate advice to tell somebody, if their PCI devices aren't working and their OS isn't a Microsoft Plug and Play OS, that they should disable the "Plug & Play Operating System" option in their BIOS setup program. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message