From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 18 08:25:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12926 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:25:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12914 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA11143; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:23:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702181623.JAA11143@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: plug-and-play support for UART cards? To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:23:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702180406.UAA05285@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Feb 17, 97 08:06:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just picked up a TurboExpress Port 920 16C750 based UART card from > pacific commware. This card has no jumpers, it's meant to be a completely > plug-and-pray devices. > > I need to use it in a box that has no BIOS support for plug-and-play devices. > Does anyone have a pointer to the pnp standard so I can poke this thing to > make it appear in the right spots? There is plug-n-play code for FreeBSD for BIOS-less machines. It was written by Sujal Patel. In general, it is maintained and integrated by people on the multimedia list (multimedia@freebsd.org). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.