From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 18:50:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23545 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23539 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA16297; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:45:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601110245.TAA16297@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PnP problem... To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:45:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Jan 10, 96 08:00:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Non-PnP cards are probed before the sort because you can't cause them > > to be relocated. This give you a base set of per device configuration > > attributes for those devices which you recognize. > > Unfortuantely, since Non-PnP cards and PnP cards BOTH fall into the > category of ISA Cards, you can't [easily] have the luxury of probing the > ISA Non-PnP cards first. There just really isn't an easy way to seperate > the non-PnP and PnP Cards. What? You just disable "all" the cards. Those that still respond to the probe aren't PnP... though like WD cards or soft config NE2000 clones, you could potentially relocate them (a bit) anyway. If nothing responds to the probes, then you have a PnP motherboard and you enable one slot at a time and check for PnP. Probe the ones that aren't. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.