On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jim King wrote:
> At 10:50 PM 11/11/1999 -0600, Jim King wrote:
> >I just picked up an AWE64 to use until the Vortex2 driver is working. The
> >card is detected in Win98, but unfortunately the new PnP code in -current
> >(cvsup'ed this evening) doesn't seem to find this card at all. Nothing
> >shows up about it in dmesg; pnpinfo shows my ISA PnP modem, but nothing at
> >all about the AWE64.
>
> One more bit of info: this PC (Dell Dimension R450) has a Phoenix BIOS,
> which has a setting "Plug-n-Play OS? Yes/No". Changing it from No to Yes
> made the kernel find the AWE64. Unfortunately changing that setting also
> made the 3C905B NIC quit working:
>
> xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
> xl0: couldn't map ports/memory
> device_probe_and_attach: xl0 attach returned 6
>
> Another oddity: Although the AWE64 gets picked up by the pcm driver,
> pnpinfo still only shows the PnP modem - no mention of the AWE64.
FreeBSD isn't a fully PnP OS since it doesn't do resource allocation for
pci. You must leave the setting at No.
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