Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 01:45:43 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "hendrix77@" <hendrix77@cockatiel.aus.org> Cc: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>, Dan Odom <daniel@jimi.danodom.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports Message-ID: <19971001014543.46152@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001024055.208A-100000@cockatiel.aus.org>; from hendrix77@ on Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 02:44:01AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970930234734.20611A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001024055.208A-100000@cockatiel.aus.org>
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hendrix77@ scribbled this message on Oct 1: > 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 ? In current, we have code that will allow you to configure PnP devices, and it lets me use my cs4237b (juperless) sound card on a non-PnP motherboard... works like a charm (and I found that the cs4237b does 48k)... of course I'm also using Luigi's drivers, but that shouldn't matter.. plus you even have access to pnpinfo which will obtain a ton of info from the card about possible configurations of the card... of course nothing is more helpful than a data sheet for documenting what each LDN does.. :) also, this code doesn't get writen if people like you actually go out and work on it... thanks to Luigi Rizzo for actually completeing the work.. and enticing me to import the code by supporting my sound card.. :) he also has a package that will get you support for PnP on 2.2... his page is at http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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