From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 3: 8: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6AD15B18; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E89B1CA9; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:07:35 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Warner Losh , Warren Welch , Kevin Day , Ugen Antsilevitch , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:15:26 -0400." Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:07:35 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990907100735.8E89B1CA9@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci > > and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen > > cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems. > > And MCA and EISA attachments. Well, it seems Bruce objects to this.. I don't know why though. If he's concerned about loosing the tightly integrated sio<->isa stuff then I guess there could be an "osio" (old sio) or "isasio" or something driver that remains isa-specific. I could well imagine this could be important for older/slower machines. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message