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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



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