From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 22:33:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB3214CC1; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id PAA28622; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:21:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07856; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:22:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:13:59 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Joey Garcia Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI and/or BIOS problems on Asus and FIC motherboards In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990710180452.00796560@we.mediaone.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Joey Garcia wrote: > Okay, so I got two motherboards that are doing similar wierd stuff. One > machine (the Win98 mamchine) has an Asus P5A mainboard and the other > machine (the FreeBSD machine) has a FIC 2013+ mainboard. Both of them are > using Award BIOS. > > Okay, it started when I put a quirky network card into the FreeBSD machine > (I didn't know it was quirky then, but I had my suspicsions). Keep in mind > that the FreeBSD machine is on the FIC motherboard. I booted it up and > FreeBSD found the card just fine. It's a SimpleNet RealTek 8029 chipset > based adapter. According to FreeBSD 3.2 it was detected and should be > working just fine. Make sure that the BIOS is configured for "non-PnP OS". My personal experience is that Win95 (no experience with Win98 yet) PnP is itself quirky, and is quite capable of screwing up a previously working config at the drop of a hat. Setting the BIOS for "non-PnP OS" means that all PnP settings are established by the BIOS, and those that can logically controlled (ie ISA IRQs etc) can be hardwired in the BIOS. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message