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To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Subject: Re: Modem Support 
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Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:53:43 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 16:51:40 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> PNP = plug in the card and it will play nice with your machine.
> All PC expansion cards are PNP compatible now a days no matter
> which expansion slot type it goes in.

Sorry, but I'm afraid not. Plug nd Play is defined by Wintel to be a
method of allowing auto-configuration of ISA cards and is defined such
by BIOS, which is where it is largely implemented and by FreeBSDs
PNPBIOS kernel option.

It is true that PCI cards are auto-configurable in most cases, but that
is not what the term PNP refers to in the PC (I386) hardware world.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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