From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 04:51:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA04679 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA04365 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA07649; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:16:54 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601031246.XAA07649@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeDetect & Plug n Play To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:16:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601031103.DAA02290@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jan 3, 96 03:03:22 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > Is anyone looking into Plug&Play? > It is rather nice to probe the bus and find out all the Plug&Play devices 8) Looking, yes. Doing anything? Hmm 8( > Here is a contact sorry I forgot his name -- he is the Intel Manager for > Plug & Play: 503-264-3196 There was a URL posted recently for the Intel IAL CD application form. I filled this in on the last day before christmas, and received the disk (FedExed to Australia) late last week. There's a lot of documentation on it, and possibly enough to get us quite a way down the track. > We really need to talk to Intel to see if they will release the code > for their configuration manager. Obviously this would be nice, but given the heavy Microsoft presence in this venture, I'm not hopeful 8( > At any rate ,we will need Plug & Play support unless we are willing to > boot dos to init the Plug&Play devices... Indeed. > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[