Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:01:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glen W Mann <gmann@itw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pentium - sio0 (and mouse) not found Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309000037.3844Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306190416.180A-100000@localhost>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Glen W Mann wrote: > > See if you can force the modem to use COM2 by jumpers. PnP will be > > officially supported in 2.2.6, in the meantime there are patches on the > > 2.2.5 CD. > > > > Plug&pray modems bite :( > > > > Do you think USB will be better? I suppose that PnP doesn't work well is > a known fact. If we get a USB driver :-/ PnP's brokenness is alreadly legendary, but 2.2.6 will fix that with actual Pnp support. > Anyway I rearranged the COM ports - I have mouse on COM2 > and modem (not PnP) on COM1. I still wouldn't mind a guess as to why I > could not do the reverse (mouse on COM1, modem on COM2). Could this be a > BIOS bug or defective motherboard? I've finally figured out the MB > manufacturer - PCChips model M571. Hope Windoze NT can deal with this > (sort of). Dunno. A PnP-enabled kernel will help lots tho. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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