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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



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