From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 13 0: 6:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C60337B53D for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 00:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01390; Sat, 13 May 2000 00:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005130706.AAA01390@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Donn Miller Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unknown: In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 11:12:44 EDT." <391C1F6C.A26301B9@cvzoom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:06:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It seems Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > I did notice that I started getting all of the "unknown: " > > > messages after the PNPBIOS option became default. On the > > > machine I'm typing on this on, I used to see those messages > > > if I defined PNPBIOS in my config file. PNPBIOS became default > > > some time back, with no way (that I saw) to turn it off. > > > > You can turn it off in the loader, I have to on my laptop to get it > > to work proberly... > > Would that be in /boot/loader.conf? I've tried > > PNPBIOS="NO" > > in /boot/loader.conf, and I'm still getting the messages. > > [snip] > plip0: on ppbus0 > unknown: can't assign resources > unknown: can't assign resources > unknown: can't assign resources > unknown: can't assign resources > If you're just complaining about the messages, don't do anything. They'll go away soon, and there are much better things to spend your time worrying about. IF and ONLY IF the PNPBIOS code is causing your machine to fail, do the following: - Send me FULL DETAILS; this will need to include the trap messages and, if the trap is in the kernel, a DDB traceback. - Read the loader's online help for details on disabling use of the PnP BIOS. Note - just turning it off and not letting us fix this is a Really Stupid Idea, and I'd hope that you can see why. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message