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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 07:37:45 -0400
From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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Subject: pnpinfo (was Re: sound question)
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Sujal -

> 
> >  So, to get my sound card working; I have a little DOS floppy I
> > boot from, that runs the sound card's setup program.  Then, I do
> > a warm boot (CNTL-ALT-DEL) to boot up FreeBSD.  At that point,
> > FreeBSD recognizes the sound card as a "normal" sound-blaster Pro, and
> > everything works fine.
> >
> >  I think some people are working on getting Plug-and-Play into
> > FreeBSD... is that true?
> 
> Yes...  There is work being done, but I'm holding out until I can get
> everything working the way Plug-and-Play was intended (i.e. fully
> automatic).
> 
> In the meantime, some VERY preliminary (working) support can be found on
> ftp://xi.dorm.umd.edu/pub/pnp/*  These patches are for -current, though
> they should be easily adaptable to 2.1R.
> 
> 
> Sujal
> 

 I grabbed your patches, read the README (by the way, you may
want to put your e-mail address at the bottom of that README),
and jumped up-and-down with joy to see that this was coming
together.


 So, I untarr'd pnpinfo.tar.gz and ran pnpinfo.  

 Here's what I got:

       lakes# ./pnpinfo
       Checking for Plug-n-Play devices...
       No Plug-n-Play devices were found
       lakes# 

 although, I have a MediaVision Plug-N-Play sound card in the machine.
 (it's a non-PnP bios, 486-66 VLB machine, FreeBSD 2.1-R)

 Where should I start looking to see why this isn't recognized?  The
 documentation that comes with the card is quite miserable (although,
 it does use an OPTi chip set - I did wrangle some documentation from
 them, but it's not exactly readable...)

	- Dave Rivers -