I just noticed that someone else ran into a problem with the solution
"Disable PNP OS in the BIOS". I too ran into that some time back for a
very different problem. If it weren't for the great help from this list,
I would probably still be chasing that one down.
Now I haven't installed FreeBSD fo
On Wed, 1 May 2002, PSI, Mike Smith wrote:
> Is there ANY benefit to having PNP OS enabled?? I know there are a lot
I dont know about the technical details of FreeBSD in this regard, but one
bennefit I can think of off hand is if you dual-boot to some other
operating system where it is useful.
On Wed, 1 May 2002, PSI, Mike Smith wrote:
> I just noticed that someone else ran into a problem with the solution
> "Disable PNP OS in the BIOS". I too ran into that some time back for a
> very different problem. If it weren't for the great help from this list,
> I would probably still be chasin
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"PSI, Mike Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I just noticed that someone else ran into a problem with the solution
: "Disable PNP OS in the BIOS". I too ran into that some time back for a
: very different problem. If it weren't for the great help from
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Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: PCI is of course immune from these problems since it has resource
: assignment built-in.
Actually, that's not correct. There is no built-in resource assigment
in PCI. PCI just gives a convenient place for the B
"PSI, Mike Smith" wrote:
> Is there ANY benefit to having PNP OS enabled?? I know there are a lot
> of problems if it is? If there are no benefits, I would suggest making
> this (disabling it) a VERY BLATANT step (suggestion?) in the
> installation instructions for FreeBSD. Again, I haven't instal
> itself (since it likes to). FreeBSD does not have code to handle
> assigning PNP resources, or at least code that works well :) (There is the
> PNPBIOS kernel option, but I'm not sure that works anymore.)
The PNPBIOS option just implements another accessor method; resource
allocation is a sep
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