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From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Intel VE Desktop 10/100 NIC NOT SUPPORTED?
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 Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 17:24:38, msmith (Mike Smith) wrote about "Re: Intel VE Desktop 10/100 NIC NOT SUPPORTED?": 

> > Disabling Plug and Play in the BIOS seemed to cure this one
> > for me...
> > If I am right(!), does anyone know exactly why this is? What
> > does the error message mean exactly? Quick skim through the
> > driver source for me I thinks...
> It means that you have "PNP OS" turned on in your BIOS, and the version 
> of FreeBSD that you are running is not a "PNP OS".

Does "options PNPBIOS" fix this? I have a SiS496+AMDK4/133 box where
FreeBSD4 hangs up without this option during searching ISA PnP devices, and
there are no "PNP OS Yes/No" switch in BIOS. "options PNPBIOS" enables
system to load and work correctly but it was found occasionally,
no man mentiones this option in such context. (FreeBSD3 did not require
any special options to boot.)


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