From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 16:18:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F3537B429 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 16:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16LZ6w-00024n-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 00:18:26 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id CCEF51174; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 01:18:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 01:18:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Modem Support Message-ID: <20020102001824.GA1049@raggedclown.net> References: <20020101213743.GE3117@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > PNP = plug in the card and it will play nice with your machine. > All PC expansion cards are PNP compatible now a days no matter > which expansion slot type it goes in. > I hate to be pedantic, but PCI is kind of inherently "plug and play", plug and play was originally an improvement to ISA to make installation less traumatic. On a PCI only system (such as I am using as we speak) finding PnP devices is irrelevant, they will be found anyway, this is inherent in the PCI architecture. PnP may have lost it's original technical meaning and become just another buzz-phrase, but that is not what it originally was. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message