From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 30 23:46:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22846 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cockatiel.aus.org (hendrix77@cockatiel.aus.org [199.166.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22833 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hendrix77@localhost) by cockatiel.aus.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA00212; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:44:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "hendrix77@" To: Andrew Gordon cc: Dan Odom , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Andrew Gordon 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? > > Just because they have no jumpers, that doesn't mean you are forced > to use PnP. Certainly most ISA Ethernet cards can be configured by EEPROM > to reside at a fixed address rather than being PnP (usually by use of > a DOS utility). In some cases, this option is not clearly documented > (SMC EtherEZ for example - there is a command-line option to the > EZSETUP program to disable PnP, but if you go into the menu-driven > version you don't get that option). > We are home users of FreeBSD, we dont have windows 3.1 or 95 and find it annoying about cards that have no jumpers, I suppose we ideally should be harassing the hardware vendors for drivers. But it genuinely sucks that we went out and bought a SB16 compa tible soundcard and had to scrap it for a real SB or buy OSS to make it run since we dont have windows to run PnP config programs. I wonder is there no way to interface the pnp bios to do stuff or do you have to write code for each individual pnp card/dev ice ? Luke `