From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 20:40:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04071 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xi.dorm.umd.edu (root@morrison-c26.aa.net [204.157.220.158]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA04059 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (smpatel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xi.dorm.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01467; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:40:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@xi.dorm.umd.edu To: Timothy Stoddard cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PNP In-Reply-To: <31BF402F.2DF6@achilles.k12.ar.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Timothy Stoddard wrote: > When will FreeBSD address the PNP cards that are on the market. I have > a SMC ethernet card that I cannot use with FreeBSD simply because it is > PNP. There are alpha quality patches to support this card on ftp://freefall.freebsd.org:/incoming/*PnP* I own the SMC PnP card and it works fine with this driver. The driver is pretty stable, but there isn't a clean way to integrate this into -current yet. One small note. Change this line in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/pnp.c #define SEND(d, r) outb (ADDRESS, d); outb (WRITE_DATA, r); TO #define SEND(d, r) { outb (ADDRESS, d); outb (WRITE_DATA, r); } Sujal