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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Plug and Play naivety
From:       ran () ran ! am
Date:       1997-09-30 8:18:42
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> 

Hi,
some time ago i had same problem, - ISA PnP motherboard,
PnP sound card, but it didn't work under FreeBSD.
after check out all of possible, I found some interesting info -
Intel 430HX chipset doesn't configure ISA PnP devices IRQ and DMA
channels, it only assigns io addresses.
In this case, you need to use Sujal Patels PnP code to configure
PnP sound card.

> My BIOs also claims to support plug and play. In Freebsd (2.2.2-R) I have
> set the sound card (soundblaster 16) to the same settings Windoze 95 picked
> up but the Kernel still can't find the card.
> 
> I was going to seek out this beta driver until I saw Janice's posting. What
> is my recourse? Do without the sound card or find another OS?
> 
> I'm already "doing without" PPP due to an obscure problem between pppd and
> a particular release of Bay code.
> 
> I'm using Award BIOs with PCI/PnP support.. Soundblaster 16 PnP card. Micky-
> soft works great with the card. FreeBSD can't even see it. There doesn't
> even seem to be a way to turn off the PnP on the sound card.
> 
> Janice McLaughlin <janus@freegate.net> wrote:
> ]A search of the archives shows me that at least I'm not alone
> ]in my problems with PnP. I have also downloaded the latest code
> ]from Sujal Patel on freefall.freebsd.org for PnP support.
> ]
> ]1. mail from Sujal notes that "if your motherboard supports PnP
> ]devices, then you don't need this code". What does this mean?
> ]I've been told that the BIOS on the machine I'm using has
> ]"Plug and Play" support ... does this mean it's possible that the
> ]BIOS has queried the ISA devices on boot and already has all the
> ]config info? Can I get at this somehow from the kernel? Or is this
> ]only referring to PCI kind of Plug and Play?
> 
> 
> :---==@==---==@==---==@==---:
> Joseph Beiter                  Hacking's just another word for nothing 
> jwb@cosmic.org                 left to kludge.


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Ran d'Adi					ran@ran.am
						ran@styx.aic.net

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