Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:44:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Beiter <jwb@xioa.cosmic.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Plug and Play naivety Message-ID: <199709291344.JAA02311@xioa.cosmic.org>
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My BIOs also claims to support plug and play. In Freebsd (2.2.2-R) I have set the sound card (soundblaster 16) to the same settings Windoze 95 picked up but the Kernel still can't find the card. I was going to seek out this beta driver until I saw Janice's posting. What is my recourse? Do without the sound card or find another OS? I'm already "doing without" PPP due to an obscure problem between pppd and a particular release of Bay code. I'm using Award BIOs with PCI/PnP support.. Soundblaster 16 PnP card. Micky- soft works great with the card. FreeBSD can't even see it. There doesn't even seem to be a way to turn off the PnP on the sound card. Janice McLaughlin <janus@freegate.net> wrote: ]A search of the archives shows me that at least I'm not alone ]in my problems with PnP. I have also downloaded the latest code ]from Sujal Patel on freefall.freebsd.org for PnP support. ] ]1. mail from Sujal notes that "if your motherboard supports PnP ]devices, then you don't need this code". What does this mean? ]I've been told that the BIOS on the machine I'm using has ]"Plug and Play" support ... does this mean it's possible that the ]BIOS has queried the ISA devices on boot and already has all the ]config info? Can I get at this somehow from the kernel? Or is this ]only referring to PCI kind of Plug and Play? :---==@==---==@==---==@==---: Joseph Beiter Hacking's just another word for nothing jwb@cosmic.org left to kludge.
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