From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 11:17:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1394214FB4 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA64945; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:17:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tetsuya Watanabe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SB16PnP and /boot/loader.conf revisited In-Reply-To: <376CC9EB.96CCC94A@prodigy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > Hello, > > Could you provide some explanations to the following problem? > > FreeBSD 3.2R and pnp cards. > > In www.freebsd.org/faq/faq78.html, I see that pnp devices need "pnp x > ..." entries in /boot/kernel.conf among other settings. However, > /boot/kernel.conf contains the undocumented commands such as > di(disable?) and q(quit?), then at the bootup the system ignores these > commands and pauses right after it igonored "q" command in > /boot/kernel.conf file. At this point, pressing Enter causes the process > to resume. /boot/kernel.conf is a script fed to UserConfig. `pnp' is a UserConfig command like `quit' and `disable'. The options are fairly self-explanitory; boot -c and type 'help'at the prompt. > I decided to include ppp stuff into that file any way. If I put ppp > statements, which was followed by unknown commands in /boot/kernel.conf, > the system does not understand these directives at bootup. It is as if > the kernel does not care the pnp statements in /boot/kernel.conf as long > as there are vendor-id entries in sio.c because the presence of ppp > statements in /boot/kernel.conf does not have no meaning in this case. > The following system message always appear regardless of the presence of > pnp directives in /boot/kernel.conf. You're trying to confuse PnP, Plug & Play, with PPP, Point to Point Protocol. > I would like to figure out the correct procedure to set up this > sb16 pnp card. Use pcm, not snd/sb. The PCM driver already knows about the PNP SB cards. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message