Subject: Re: ex0: couldn't map interrupt
To: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/08/2003 11:50:59
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > 
> > Did you check your BIOS options (make sure nothing is disabled, and
> > PnP OS is set to no) ?
> 
> btw. what does this 'PnP OS' option in BIOS exactly mean? I cheched the
> Ports/i386 web pages and didn't found any explanation of it. Is it
> related to isapnp or is it something more general?

It's a hack for win98. This option tell the BIOS to not allocate resources
to the PCI cards, leading to problems like "unable to map registers"
or "no mapping for interrupt"

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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