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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:02:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>
To:        digi@studio54.cx, wpaul@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/14357: Network card setup problem
Message-ID:  <199910160602.XAA01636@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: Network card setup problem

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: wpaul
State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 15 22:56:58 PDT 1999
State-Changed-Why: 

This has nothing to do with FreeBSD, per-se. Reboot your machine and go
into the BIOS setup menu. Hunt around until you find a setting that says
something "Plug and Play OS" and turn it off.

If your machine came pre-installed with Lose95 or Lose98, it was probably
set at the factory to have the "plug and play OS" setting turned on. What
is this does is prevent the BIOS from configuring PCI and ISA plug and Play
devices so that the OS can do it instead. Only Lose95 and Lose98 work this
way. FreeBSD wants all PCI devices to be configured by the BIOS so that
it can detect them and set up drivers for them.

Since this is not a software bug, I'm closing this PR. Change the "plug
and play OS" setting in your BIOS and boot the system again.

-Bill


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