Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 02:27:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: green@zone.syracuse.NET (Brian Feldman) Cc: gseward@jps.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Novice question Message-ID: <199810150227.TAA19874@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810142204240.20984-100000@zone.syracuse.NET> from "Brian Feldman" at Oct 14, 98 10:05:26 pm
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> All I know is that sysinstall (hence the GENERIC kernel too) disk does NOT > have PnP, and I don't see one goddamned reason it shouldn't have PnP in > 3.0-RELEASE! Along with installing ELF bootability. HEAR ME JKH? </rant> > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD over a FTP connection, and I have > > been unable to get it to recognise my PnP modem. I set it in the > > kernel configuration at the com port address and IRQ identified by > > BIOS and it is never found. Any ideas? Disable PnP in the BIOS. For all PnP devices for which PnP is enabled in the BIOS, if the device is not in the boot path, the BIOS disables the device. If this does not help, then your modem is probably a "softmodem", which is a modem that relies on the host processor for some aspects of signal processing, whether MNP only, or all the way to actually signal processing the modem signal stream after merely line converting, ADAC'ing the signal, and maybe buffering at a given clock. FreeBSD won't work with modems like this (nor will Linux, nor will nearly any non-MS OS) because it requires drivers from the modem vendor (and said drivers suck your CPU through a hole in the floor). Anyway, if it works with PnP disabled in the BIOS, be sure to add your voice to Brian's (personally, I think FreeBSD should manage PnP hadrware by doing *all* the PnP work, even for PnP cards plugged into machines without PnP BIOS; actually, Windows 95/98 recommends disabling the PnP BIOS on the theory that the OS knows the hardware better than the hardware vendor does. Many times, this is right, e.g., ALR's BIOS does not properly reserve IRQ 12 for the built-in bus mouse). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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