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Date:      Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:37:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PNP ids missing in sio.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909042136150.94674-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909041018310.2081-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Steve Price wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone think of a good reason why I can't migrate the
> > old PNP ids to the new sio.c?  I just rebooted my box with
> > a fresh kernel and much to my shagrin (sp?) my USR PNP
> > modem didn't work anymore.  The following patch got it
> > working again.
> 
> The reason I didn't move the old ids wholesale is that the old system
> matched against the vendor id (which is bogus for multifunction cards).
> The new system matches with the logical device id which is often different
> from the vendor id. Some simple single function cards use the same id for
> both (as yours does) but I can't tell this without seeing the pnpinfo
> output.
> 
> > 
> > Now that we can't use the pnp command from 'boot -c', what
> > has (if anything) replaced it?  I seem to be remember this
> > being discussed recently but I'll be darned if I can find
> > it in the mailing list archives.
> 
> The pnp command should no longer be needed (crossed fingers) since the new
> code automatically detects devices and assigns resources to them.

Does the sio driver know about PCI?  Can it run PCI sio cards, like
those sold by SIIG?

> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037
> 
> 
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