From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 30 01:20:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA12523 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from styx.aic.net (Styx.AIC.NET [195.250.64.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12514 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ran@localhost) by styx.aic.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24711; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:18:42 +0400 (AMT) Message-Id: <199709300818.MAA24711@styx.aic.net> Subject: Re: Plug and Play naivety In-Reply-To: <199709291344.JAA02311@xioa.cosmic.org> from Joe Beiter at "Sep 29, 97 09:44:41 am" To: jwb@xioa.cosmic.org (Joe Beiter) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:18:42 +0400 (AMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: ran@ran.am Reply-To: ran@ran.am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, some time ago i had same problem, - ISA PnP motherboard, PnP sound card, but it didn't work under FreeBSD. after check out all of possible, I found some interesting info - Intel 430HX chipset doesn't configure ISA PnP devices IRQ and DMA channels, it only assigns io addresses. In this case, you need to use Sujal Patels PnP code to configure PnP sound card. > My BIOs also claims to support plug and play. In Freebsd (2.2.2-R) I have > set the sound card (soundblaster 16) to the same settings Windoze 95 picked > up but the Kernel still can't find the card. > > I was going to seek out this beta driver until I saw Janice's posting. What > is my recourse? Do without the sound card or find another OS? > > I'm already "doing without" PPP due to an obscure problem between pppd and > a particular release of Bay code. > > I'm using Award BIOs with PCI/PnP support.. Soundblaster 16 PnP card. Micky- > soft works great with the card. FreeBSD can't even see it. There doesn't > even seem to be a way to turn off the PnP on the sound card. > > Janice McLaughlin wrote: > ]A search of the archives shows me that at least I'm not alone > ]in my problems with PnP. I have also downloaded the latest code > ]from Sujal Patel on freefall.freebsd.org for PnP support. > ] > ]1. mail from Sujal notes that "if your motherboard supports PnP > ]devices, then you don't need this code". What does this mean? > ]I've been told that the BIOS on the machine I'm using has > ]"Plug and Play" support ... does this mean it's possible that the > ]BIOS has queried the ISA devices on boot and already has all the > ]config info? Can I get at this somehow from the kernel? Or is this > ]only referring to PCI kind of Plug and Play? > > > :---==@==---==@==---==@==---: > Joseph Beiter Hacking's just another word for nothing > jwb@cosmic.org left to kludge. -- Ran d'Adi ran@ran.am ran@styx.aic.net