From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 21:17:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C9937B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f414Mev05819; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105010422.f414Mev05819@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: Valentin Nechayev , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel VE Desktop 10/100 NIC NOT SUPPORTED? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:45:47 EDT." <200105010145.VAA22091@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:22:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >What does PNPBIOS option do? > > It controls whether the BIOS or the OS will configure PnP > devices. No, it doesn't. It determines whether FreeBSD will consult the system's PnP BIOS to locate motherboard devices. This can have side-effects, which is why it's an option and not the default (it is in 5.x). You are confusing this with the BIOS "PnP OS" option. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message