From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 30 15:36:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15930 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geocities.com (mail2.geocities.com [209.1.224.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15925 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane1@geocities.com) Received: from geocities.com (pmfy21.burgoyne.com [209.197.5.125]) by geocities.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02596; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:36:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <368AB974.402BEA60@geocities.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:38:28 -0700 From: Charlie Root X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Belits CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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