Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:23:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Jim King <king@sstar.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pnp and AWE64 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911122022530.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991112071811.015e8c20@mail.sstar.com>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jim King wrote: > At 10:50 PM 11/11/1999 -0600, Jim King wrote: > >I just picked up an AWE64 to use until the Vortex2 driver is working. The > >card is detected in Win98, but unfortunately the new PnP code in -current > >(cvsup'ed this evening) doesn't seem to find this card at all. Nothing > >shows up about it in dmesg; pnpinfo shows my ISA PnP modem, but nothing at > >all about the AWE64. > > One more bit of info: this PC (Dell Dimension R450) has a Phoenix BIOS, > which has a setting "Plug-n-Play OS? Yes/No". Changing it from No to Yes > made the kernel find the AWE64. Unfortunately changing that setting also > made the 3C905B NIC quit working: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 > xl0: couldn't map ports/memory > device_probe_and_attach: xl0 attach returned 6 > > Another oddity: Although the AWE64 gets picked up by the pcm driver, > pnpinfo still only shows the PnP modem - no mention of the AWE64. FreeBSD isn't a fully PnP OS since it doesn't do resource allocation for pci. You must leave the setting at No. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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