From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 11:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27746 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net (dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net [209.212.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27740 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andym@ntt.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dukat.noc.cup.ndp.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA20133; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andym@ntt.net) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:53:50 -0800 (PST) From: Andy McConnell To: Conrad Sabatier cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWE PNP not recognized In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-2022-JP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >On 18-Nov-98 Andy McConnell wrote: >> (Thanks Conrad! I've been working off your web-based instructions >> already!) >> >> I've done that... But I used drq1 5 instead (as recc. by the cards docs). >> >> I also didn't disable LDN 1 and 3... Would that make the difference? > >No, that shouldn't matter. > >> Did I miss setting something on the card itself? Like booting to DOS or >> (gasp) Win95 and initializing the card in some way? > >Perhaps. It's very strange that pnpinfo doesn't even find the card. It's not >one of the newer PCI cards, is it? :-) fairly new... Jut bought it new a few weeks ago. AWE64 Gold. What about the new cards makes them not found in FreeBSD? Is it the vendor ID? If so, where could I change that/recompile? if it's more complex.... Damn, it's been years since my OS class... :-) >Again, check your BIOS settings. On some machines, strangely enough, you have >to *disable* PnP in the BIOS. I'll try that first. But it seems unlikely, since the USR Sportster I have seems to respond quite nicely to the OS. >I'd say first of all work on getting pnpinfo to see the card. Until you've >managed that, it's like the card doesn't even exist. > >-- >Conrad Sabatier > >If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a >call. > > -- Andy McConnell 真向練 安堵龍 NTT America IP Headquarters Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message