Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:33:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, matthew@wolfepub.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My BIOS wants to know "Do you have a PNP OS?" Message-ID: <199901191633.IAA05229@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:18:40 %2B0100." <199901191518.QAA10060@qix>
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> >>>>> Mike Smith writes: > > >> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > >> > >> > What should the "PNP OS?" option in a BIOS be set to? What effect does > >> > this setting have on FreeBSD? > >> > >> This should be set to "No". When set to yes, the BIOS will violate the > >> PCI spec and not configure the PCI cards in your system. > > ^may > > > Most will actually configure PCI cards; those that don't may configure > > just those that might form part of the boot path. > > > More significantly, when set to "yes", ISA PnP cards will not be > > automatically configured. This is bad. > > This is not my experience. My 3C509B won't work when the PnP option is > set to NO. Is that "509B" or "905B"? The '509 is not a PnP card, and if it's failing with "PnP OS" set to "NO", I can only guess that some part of the ISA PNP process is tying it in knots. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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