Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:38:28 -0700 From: Charlie Root <insane1@geocities.com> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <368AB974.402BEA60@geocities.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9812301013310.238-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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Alex Belits wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Matt Edwards wrote: > > > > > No such luck, thanks anyway. I guess I forgot to tell you in the first > > message, its a Creative Labs Modem Blaster Flash56 (actually > > manufactured by a > > subsidary called DSI) PCI, PnP. I ran pnpinfo and all it came up with > > was my > > Creative Labs Vibra16 (Sound Blaster) so I guess I got stuck with a > > 'winmodem' > > Thanx again. > > PCI cards are called "PnP" only because of strange freak of > nature^H^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing. They have nothing to do with ISA PnP and > everything with PCI bus and its resource allocation. So even though I > never have seen that particular device it should be visible on PCI, and it > should be possible to configure serial driver for it, unless, of course > it's on PCI *and* it is winmodem (what makes even less sense than winmodem > on ISA bus). > > -- > Alex > FreeBSD probes for devices on PCI when I boot up and it finds my onboard devices and my PCI video card(S3 virge), but it doesn't detect the modem. Is there something in the kernel I can do to make it look on PCI? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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