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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:19:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk (Timo Geusch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent kernel hangs during boot with pnp sio.
Message-ID:  <199910041219.OAA82564@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991004070925.A19400@tabby.timog.prestel.co.uk> from Timo Geusch at "Oct 4, 1999 07:09:25 am"

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It seems Timo Geusch wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:32:11PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > Hmm, I also have severe problems with the PnP stuff and my 3C509
> > cards, it just wont work as the pnp code finds and allocates
> > adresses for the card, but the card probe doesn't pick them up...
> 
> Soren,
> AFAIK the ep driver does not interact with PnP, does it? Those cards do have
> two different methods for detecting the parameters, one of which is PnP.
> If the driver hasn't changed much in the last two-three months is doesn't know
> about PnP at all. PnP-like config entries used to work via the old 3Com-
> specific configuration mechanism.

Correct, but if one has pnp0 in the kernel it doesn work no matter how
you config it (or at least I cannot get it to work)..

> I do have an updated/changed driver that uses Pnp to configure the card but I
> am not able to work on it until mid next week. Also it exposes problems 
> which I believe are in my changes or side-effects from the apparent buggyness
> of the original driver.
> If you're interested I can send you the source code for the driver but it is
> not clear if it works on -current at the moment as I haven't updated for
> some time.

Sure, I can try it out here, and maybe help a little (time permitting)...

-Soren


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