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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:59:54 -0700
To: garya@dreamchaser.org, Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
From: Scott Halbert <scott@thuntek.net>
Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem
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At 02:24 PM 2/15/96 -0700, garya@dreamchaser.org wrote:
>
>>Don't forget that there is another problem going on here.  Not only do 
>>you have the PnP problem to deal with, but FreeBSD has some problems
>>seeing some internal modems even if they are there and properly
>>set up (there are some delay problems in the driver).
>
>That's good to know, if I ever get that far.  Thanks.
>I just tried the configuration program supplied with the modem and it
>won't even load properly under win95; or dos 7.0, or dos 6.22;
>nor will it run from the distribution disk.  Just hangs and you have to 
>reboot.

We're running with some supras without Pnp, but I had to patch sio.c to
get them to work.

Basically I think that no PnP device will work with FreeBSD until a
PnP manager is added to the kernel and device drivers are updated to
support it.  The PnP BIOS negotiates IRQs and addresses with the cards
and FreeBSD must get that info from the PnP BIOS tables in order for
any of the drivers to know about the cards.

I don't even know what happens to PnP cards when you have no PnP BIOS
in your machine.

---Scott Halbert

>Shoot the modem, and the mfg...
>
>Gary Aitken		garya@ics.com         (business)
>			garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)
>
>