Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. SoundBlaster 16PnP
To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/05/1996 12:59:08
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Mike Long wrote:

> >2.) The damned card uses PnP and I didn't find a way to disable it.
> >    Is there any way to make NetBSD recognize it's IRQ except
> >    making a good guess and compiling it into the kernel? Or does
> >    anybody know a way to hardwire the card to cerntain parameters?
> 
> NetBSD doesn't (yet) have any Plug 'n Pr^Hlay support, so there's no
> way to make the system find the IRQ automatically.

Someone ported my FreeBSD PnP driver to NetBSD & OpenBSD (but I frgot 
who).  You should check the OpenBSD commit log to find out who it was.  
The driver is messy (and an older version of my current work), but it 
will get you working.


Sujal