Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:12:15 -0400 From: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIXED --> Thanks! Re: ep0 eeprom failed to come ready... Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000403120559.03be17b0@email.eden.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000403111148.A38326@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <200004021821.LAA02427@freeway.dcfinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003252309120.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <200004021821.LAA02427@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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>At 11:11 AM 4/3/00 +0200, you wrote: >Moral of the story. It is plain untrue that Windows sees all hardware in >a straightfoward way. One may need to fiddle very much with BIOS settings >and it is very long and guesswork, involving a lot of reboots. It is much >easier to use tools such as pnpdump (linux) or pnpinfo (freebsd) and >issue the proper configuration commands. Having an automatic procedure is >nice, if it works. But there is no insurance that it will work even under >Windows and with the manufacturer provided drivers. >-- > >Michel TALON This is why I refuse to buy motherboards that do not allow pci slot irq level control. Asus boards tend to do this well, so I can usually force everything in the proper irq setting and / or reserve irqs and dmas for non pnp devices. Well, it sounded like you had a few pnp isa nics, I only worked with the sound blaster awe 32 pnp. I usually turn off Pnp OS in the Bios. I multiboot windows 95, 98, windows NT, linux, and FreeBSD. My pnp devices work fine, nothing every barfs. I have seen people getting motherboards without pci slot irq level control and they got to do the "magic shuffle" like what you did. It is unfortunate, but I think most "big name vendors" do not supply motherboards with that kind of feature. Ah well. Trouble for them, fine for my own machine. Actually this confuses me a bit. So, if I say pnp os no (which is what has been so successful for me for a while), FreeBSD's kernel will still use the bios to figure out how to dish out what resources? Will it take into consideration what my bios said? So far it seems to (my pci slot irq level control settings). -Carroll Kong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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