Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 04:28:48 PDT From: "Albert Fields" <afieldsml@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: pnp(4) no longer allowed by userconfig, pnp0 missing Message-ID: <F190qeR9wgYOFs3uyY3000063da@hotmail.com>
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Passing this on to freebsd-questions and freebsd-hardware (originally posted in -stable), because I am unsure of which ml is most on topic. ----- Hi, I've been searching all the mailing lists and have seen many people asking my question, but no responses to it. (From what I can see.) The question is this: What happened to the pnp support in user config in 4.0? The man page pnp(4) is still there, although inaccurate, and from what I've looked though in the past two days, support for pnp configuration at boot seems to have disappeared. What's going on? I have hesitated to bring myself up past 4.0-STABLE (don't feel like messing around much and need stability on this machine), but I am seriously considering it if I need to, to add PnP support. If I went to -current, would PnP be restored? When I added the entry 'controller pnp0' as suggested by the pnp(4) manpage to my kernel config (which seemed strange to me because it was called controller), config said that 'controller' was depreciated and to use device. When I added the entry 'device pnp0', config told me it couldn't find the device pnp. So where has it gone? As far as I can see this is a large inconvenience for a number of people, so can someone please advice what can be done to configure PnP devices from /boot/kernel.conf or by other means at boot? Is there a substitute or other command that can be used in it's place? Was it depreciated? If so, by what? Why was this removed? Etc... etc... Usually this wouldn't be a concern, because I would just let it set itself, and forget it. (Plug'n Pray) However, I am running low on IRQs and need to move some things around; I want to give IRQs to devices that are coming up with 'can't assign resources'... Otherwise I can't get all the devices working due to stupidity in hardware. Some are on-board devices on the ISA side. I was considering to just go out and buy better hardware, but I don't want to give up since, IMHO, I think in most cases the software should be made to run on hardware, not the converse. (Plus, I wanted to get this specific hardware running.) It is a tight fit getting all the peripherals working, but it will fit if I can get the PnP side working. Thanks for helping me, and others who have this same problem, Albert Fields _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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