Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Bosserman <tboss@corp.earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem using pnpinfo Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108201648280.17087-100000@burma>
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I never get any output from pnpinfo. I have several different machines
running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. All systems have PnP
motherboards. In fact, the kernel can find and use most of the PnP devices
on the systems. But when I run pnpinfo all it says is
Checking for Plug-n-Play devices...
No Plug-n-Play devices were found
I recompiled pnpinfo with -DDEBUG, and it gives this output:
Checking for Plug-n-Play devices...
Trying Read_Port at 203...
Trying Read_Port at 243...
Trying Read_Port at 283...
Trying Read_Port at 2c3...
Trying Read_Port at 303...
Trying Read_Port at 343...
Trying Read_Port at 383...
Trying Read_Port at 3c3...
No Plug-n-Play devices were found
The only reason I am started down this road is that the system does not
recognize two PnP devices on one system: the parallel port hardware and
the builtin modem. I was going to add the necessary strings to sio.c
and ppc.c so they would be recognized automatically at boot time. The
work-around is easy: configure the devices in the config file as non-PnP
devices. But sometimes it would just generally be useful to be able
to use the pnpinfo command.
I have made at least a half-hearted search through the PRs, the FAQs,
the handbook, and the mailing lists, but to no avail. Several people
have reported the opposite problem: pnpinfo works, but they can't get
the devices to work. But I don't seem to see anybody with my particular
problem.
Any idea why I cannot get pnpinfo to work?
A couple different things I have already tried which made no difference:
- Changing the BIOS setting of "PnP Operating System" back and forth
between YES and NO.
- Compiling the kernel with and without "options PNPBIOS".
Looking at the code for pnpbios, this one seems like it should
be irrelevant.
Thanks!
--Tim Bosserman
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