From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Nov 17 12:55:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDFC37B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04540; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:55:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:55:33 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: Andy Sparrow Cc: Thomas Winningham , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, usb-bsd@eleetbsd.org Subject: Re: USB Ethernet and unconfigurable PNP bios Message-ID: <20011117135533.B4455@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <20011114192413.80C323E17@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011114192413.80C323E17@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>; from spadger@best.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:24:13AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:24:13AM -0800, Andy Sparrow wrote: > I think that this is exactly the same problem that bites me with a > sound chipset on an HP laptop - the BIOS doesn't set it up in a manner > that FreeBSD can deal with, and there's no way to tell it to do so. Another example of Larson's third law: "Every attempt to make computers simpler to use has succeeded only for the simple." -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message