From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 11 2:53:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f40.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37E237B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:53:17 -0700 Received: from 216.154.60.178 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:53:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.154.60.178] From: "Albert Fields" To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: pnp(4) documentation upgrades Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:53:17 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Sep 2000 09:53:17.0806 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C4BE0E0:01C01BD6] Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, The below are changes that I recommend be made to various documentation on the FreeBSD web site and manpages since pnp(4) userconfig manual ISA PnP support was depreciated. Please disregard manpage changes if the changes are already in -current. I am running 4.0-RELEASE and haven't gone -current. The question remains: is there actually something to replace this functionality? If so, it would help for it to be documented. I feel blind because, so far, in the mailing lists this has never been clarified, from what I have searched through, other than to say it was deleted a while back from 4.0-current. I have also posted some questions to freebsd-stable,-questions,-hardware; awaiting more responses. How does one configure ISA PnP devices manually now? If I knew how, I would help you document it. I haven't went into the kernel source for PnP yet. If I bring my machine up to -current and find a way to work without pnp(4) I will let you know. Let me know if a formal PR on this issue would be of any use. Thanks, Al... ----- 1) Man: pnp(4) - Recommended: Delete manpage from new releases or correct to reflect working solution, and/or mark depreciated. 'controller pnp0', 'device pnp0' both rejected by config in 4.0-RELEASE and earlier from what I have heard. ----- : PNP(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual (i386 Architecture) : PNP(4) : : NAME : pnp - support for PnP devices : : SYNOPSIS : controller pnp0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [Snip] ----- ----- 2) FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/hardware.html, http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html - Recommended: Change to explain how devices that fail to attach with-out being configured through userconfig can be attached now without pnp(4). Or mark as not working in 4.0-RELEASE and other affected versions w/o pnp(4). ----- [Snip] : Q: I have an internal Plug & Play modem and FreeBSD can't find it. : : A: You will need to add the modem's PnP ID to the PnP ID list in the : serial driver. To enable Plug & Play support, : compile a new kernel with controller pnp0 in the configuration file, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : then reboot the system. The kernel will print the : PnP IDs of all the devices it finds. Copy the PnP ID from the modem : to the table in /sys/i386/isa/sio.c, at about : line 2777. Look for the string SUP1310 in the structure siopnp_ids[] : to find the table. Build the kernel again, install, : reboot, and your modem should be found. : : You may have to manually configure the PnP devices using the pnp ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : command in the boot-time configuration with a : command like : : pnp 1 0 enable os irq0 3 drq0 0 port0 0x2f8 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : : to make the modem show. [Snip] ----- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message