Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:31:41 GMT From: Dan Odom <daniel@jimi.danodom.com> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports Message-ID: <199710011831.SAA00203@jimi.danodom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970930234734.20611A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <199709301841.SAA03454@jimi.danodom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970930234734.20611A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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Obvious problem: what does one do if one does not have MS-DOS anywhere? Adaptec, for example, includes the software in the card BIOS accesible via a hotkey during boot. I love their cards. If I can only change the numbers using a DOS utility, I can't change them at all. This is a straight BSD office (BSDI 2.1, BSDI 3.0, FreeBSD 2.7.1, and FreeBSD 2.2.2). Andrew Gordon writes: > 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? > > 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). > > Sound cards are the one category where PnP has become almost mandatory. > > BTW, note that Windows NT 4.0 doesn't do PnP either - perhaps you meant > "this era of Windows 95" in the above? -- Daniel Odom, software engineer http://www.danodom.com/ "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
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