From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 00:02:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05359 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05189 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:01:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA03992; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:01:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Glen W Mann cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pentium - sio0 (and mouse) not found In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Glen W Mann wrote: > > See if you can force the modem to use COM2 by jumpers. PnP will be > > officially supported in 2.2.6, in the meantime there are patches on the > > 2.2.5 CD. > > > > Plug&pray modems bite :( > > > > Do you think USB will be better? I suppose that PnP doesn't work well is > a known fact. If we get a USB driver :-/ PnP's brokenness is alreadly legendary, but 2.2.6 will fix that with actual Pnp support. > Anyway I rearranged the COM ports - I have mouse on COM2 > and modem (not PnP) on COM1. I still wouldn't mind a guess as to why I > could not do the reverse (mouse on COM1, modem on COM2). Could this be a > BIOS bug or defective motherboard? I've finally figured out the MB > manufacturer - PCChips model M571. Hope Windoze NT can deal with this > (sort of). Dunno. A PnP-enabled kernel will help lots tho. 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