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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:31:41 -0600
From:      Jim King <king@sstar.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pnp and AWE64
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991114132902.015f92e8@mail.sstar.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991113231829.01620f30@mail.sstar.com>
References:  <19991113222304.A22008@cs.mcgill.ca> <Jim King's message [Re: pnp and AWE64] as of Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 03:51:52PM -0600> <4.2.0.58.19991112191106.0161a680@mail.sstar.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911131303200.251-100000@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991113155109.01622610@mail.sstar.com>

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At 11:20 PM 11/13/1999 -0600, Jim King wrote:
>At 10:23 PM 11/13/1999 -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote:
>>On Nov 13, Jim King wrote:
>> > At 01:05 PM 11/13/1999 -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
>> > >What does pnpinfo show?
>> >
>> > pnpinfo shows a bunch of information about my USR PnP modem, but 
>> nothing at
>> > all about the AWE64 (or anything else).
>> >
>>
>>         Sorry to jump in.  I once difficulties with PnP that felt
>>similiar.  I had a working sound card and when I stuck in an ISA PnP
>>ethernet card, the sound card disapeared.
>>         I fixed it by hacking the for loop in pnp_identify in
>>isa/pnp.c.  When the loop went backwards, I could detect both devices.
>
>That does it.  When running the loop forward only the ISA PnP modem is 
>found; after hacking it to run the loop backwards the AWE64 *and* the 
>modem are both found.  Thanks!

fwiw, the same thing applies to FreeBSD 3.3 - an out-of-the-box kernel will 
only find the ISA PnP modem (a USR3090); reversing the loop in 
pnp_configure() in sys/i386/isa/pnp.c makes both the modem and the AWE64 
get detected.

Jim



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