From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 13:23:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13902 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:23:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13893 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA08938; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:14:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602282114.OAA08938@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Soundblaster 16 isn't recognized To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:14:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: strauss@dkrz.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Feb 27, 96 02:35:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > You need to disable Plug and Play on that card or port to keep the PnP > hardware for moving the card around on you. FreeBSD does not take well > to hardware not being where it thinks. > > Until someone programs PnP support into fbsd, that is. (hint? no.) It is impossible to be 100% non-destructive in an ISA Plug-N-Play probe sequence. This is beacause the PnP specification dictates the use of ports used by early IBM parallel port boards. The best win for real PnP will be the death of ISA. Barring that, you will *always* have to manually configure some hardware/kernel seetings for *some* machine *somewhere*. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.