From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 11:23:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from socrates.nmia.com (socrates.nmia.com [198.59.166.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34C7237B424 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plato.nmia.com(really [198.59.166.165]) by socrates.nmia.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:23:48 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Apr-19) Received: by plato.nmia.com id m13QwEe-0011ZKC; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:23:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: Subject: pnp 1 0 enable os irq0 3 drq0 0 port0 0x2f8 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:23:47 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ross A Lippert" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting the FAQ: >You may have to manually configure the PnP devices using >the pnp command in the boot-time configuration with a command like > > pnp 1 0 enable os irq0 3 drq0 0 port0 0x2f8 Can someone explain to me what the arguments mean? the 1 and the 0 baffle me "enable" seems like a positive thing to say "os" what os? what else would I enable but the os? "drq0 0", "irq0 3" and "port0 0x2f8" are pretty clear from the archives, though I don't know what a drq is, I guess I could look it up somewhere. I've find a few unanswered pleas for kernel.conf documentation such as this. Does anyone have any? (I am not subscribed-- respond with cc: ripper@nmia.com) -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message