From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 17: 1:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from burma.research.earthlink.net (burma.research.earthlink.net [209.179.2.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D239437B407 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tboss@corp.earthlink.net) Received: from localhost (tboss@localhost) by burma.research.earthlink.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7L01Fb18092 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Bosserman X-Sender: tboss@burma To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem using pnpinfo Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message