Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:45:42 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Timo Geusch <freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent kernel hangs during boot with pnp sio. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061044390.571-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199910052328.SAA69829@celery.dragondata.com>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > Afaik all 3C509B's are PnP. At least here in the UK there is not > > > shortage of those cards. > > > > If I can get a difinitive statement to this effect then I'll grab a > > 3c509B. There was some question as to them actually being PnP though. > > > > Yes, the 3c509B can have PnP turned on or off through a DOS utility. Either > you set an IO/IRQ setting, or you set it to PnP and let the system do it. (I > believe they come with PnP enabled now, but before the default was off) If you find yourself with one of these and pnp is turned off, you can download the DOS utility from 3com. I recently had to do this for a friend (to turn pnp off). It was harder to find a DOS boot disk :-). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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