Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:18:40 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, matthew@wolfepub.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My BIOS wants to know "Do you have a PNP OS?" Message-ID: <199901191518.QAA10060@qix> In-Reply-To: <199901190354.TAA01143@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:54:37 -0800)
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>>>>> Mike Smith writes: >> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Matthew Hagerty wrote: >> >> > What should the "PNP OS?" option in a BIOS be set to? What effect does >> > this setting have on FreeBSD? >> >> This should be set to "No". When set to yes, the BIOS will violate the >> PCI spec and not configure the PCI cards in your system. > ^may > Most will actually configure PCI cards; those that don't may configure > just those that might form part of the boot path. > More significantly, when set to "yes", ISA PnP cards will not be > automatically configured. This is bad. This is not my experience. My 3C509B won't work when the PnP option is set to NO. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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