Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408235013.13615R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804081229.IAA06597@rstcorp.com>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote: > >>>>> "Doug" == Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes: > > >> 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. > > Doug> The only documentation you really _need_ is how to enable it -- > Doug> compile ``controller pnp0'' into your kernel. Hey, it's > Doug> Plug&Pray, it's supposed to Just Work, right? :-) > > You're kidding, right? While I did get my modem working with PnP, I > still don't understand it well enough. Dave is right in that the man > pages do not tell you how to use the PnP stuff. But, this is free > software, and I should probably write up something myself if I want it > done. :-) Wow, if you haven't heard of Plug&Play then we should recruit you right now before the Microsoft marketing poison hits :) Were you by chance in a bomb shelter when Win95 came out? It was all the rage then, that you could pop an ISA card in a computer and not have to fiddle with IRQs and such. 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
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