Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:13:59 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Joey Garcia <gummibear@we.mediaone.net> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI and/or BIOS problems on Asus and FIC motherboards Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990711150808.345A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990710180452.00796560@we.mediaone.net>
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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.
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