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On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Dan Odom wrote:

> Speaking of plug and play, I am having an impossible time finding
> hardware for my FreeBSD and BSDI boxes.  Nothing out there has jumpers
> any more, not even network cards.  Where the heck does everyone find
> supplies in this era of Windows NT?

  Use PCI cards for everything.  I don't know of any PCI sound cards,
but the sound code can setup some PnP cards.

Tom