Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:24:13 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Thomas Winningham <twinningham@gwis.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, usb-bsd@eleetbsd.org Subject: Re: USB Ethernet and unconfigurable PNP bios Message-ID: <20011114192413.80C323E17@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Thomas Winningham <twinningham@gwis.com> of "Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:57:52 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111140950380.7831-100000@darcy.gwis.com>
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--==_Exmh_173605062P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/FAQ.pl#BootProblemsMapping --> > "Some machines however do not have these switches at all in the BIOS and > still the BIOS does not set up the USB host controller properly. You will > note that the boot messages during a verbose boot (type 'set boot_verbose' > at the loader prompt, at the 'ok') indicate that the irq is set to 255, > which is invalid. We hope to solve this problem at some later stage (after > 4.0-RELEASE is out) by doing the PCI en PnP enumeration in FreeBSD, making > it a 'PnP OS'. " This would be really nice. > I was wondering, since we're at 4.4 even, is their some way I can set the > USB controller's IRQ and what-not at the OS level, since I have no way of > shutting of my bios' pnp settings? Not as far as I'm aware. I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't think so. I think that this is exactly the same problem that bites me with a sound chipset on an HP laptop - the BIOS doesn't set it up in a manner that FreeBSD can deal with, and there's no way to tell it to do so. It seems like aeons now since the 'pnp' commands vanished from the boot stuff. Even though they only handled ISA devices, they were still extremely useful, and enabled you to force recaltriant devices to appear where you wanted them. AFAIK, nothing similar exists for PCI. Sorry. AS --==_Exmh_173605062P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE78sTdPHh895bDXeQRAj4wAKCuwuGYa9/7zu7+7CQn0jIQkNAKIQCdFZf+ Y9a7gzEGptYqRRwvGfw7KmE= =hmze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_173605062P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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