From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 4:27:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA9E37B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3UBWE810157; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200104301132.f3UBWE810157@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Valentin Nechayev Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel VE Desktop 10/100 NIC NOT SUPPORTED? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:43:52 +0300." <20010430114352.C646@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:32:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 17:24:38, msmith (Mike Smith) wrote about "Re: Intel VE Desktop 10/100 NIC NOT SUPPORTED?": > > > > Disabling Plug and Play in the BIOS seemed to cure this one > > > for me... > > > If I am right(!), does anyone know exactly why this is? What > > > does the error message mean exactly? Quick skim through the > > > driver source for me I thinks... > > It means that you have "PNP OS" turned on in your BIOS, and the version > > of FreeBSD that you are running is not a "PNP OS". > > Does "options PNPBIOS" fix this? I have a SiS496+AMDK4/133 box where > FreeBSD4 hangs up without this option during searching ISA PnP devices, and > there are no "PNP OS Yes/No" switch in BIOS. "options PNPBIOS" enables > system to load and work correctly but it was found occasionally, > no man mentiones this option in such context. (FreeBSD3 did not require > any special options to boot.) No, it doesn't. And FreeBSD 3.x doesn't support that network adapter at all. It looks like we are going to need to do some work on this fairly quickly, but in the meantime, you are SOL with that board. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message