Well basically what that did was turn " plug and play aware OS " OFF .Im not sure
exactly how this works . If you look in you BIOS there may be something about
on-board USB chip , HP might have called it something else who knows ... if you run
into plug and play problems down the road  thats where you go , when it says NT /95
that means that its asking you for a plug and play aware OS .. this is kinda foggy ..
they think that windows95 /NT/98  is the only plug and play aware OS ... whatever ..

Anyhow cheers bud , Glad that I could point you in the right direction.


Tony Hernandez


Richard Pennington wrote:

> Thanks for the clue, Tony.
>
> There wasn't a BIOS entry to control the USB port, that I could find.
>
> What there was, however, was a mysterious entry that said OS Type.
> It was set to Windows98/NT, and had legal values of that, Windows95, and Other.
>
> "Other" did the trick.
>
> I wonder what magic that did?
>
> It still boots Windows98 just fine.
>
> -Rich
>
> > I would disable the USB  chip in the BIOS if its not being used .
> >
> > that should solve your problem ....
> > netbsd for some reason does not like IRQ conflicts at all . Inside it probably
> > yelling  ' I cant work in these conditions ! '
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Tony Hernandez
> >
> >
> > Richard Pennington wrote:
> >
> > > I've been trying to install 1.4 on an HP Pavilion 4455, a nice little cheap
> > > system. I am using a D-Link network card with the Rhine VT3043 controller.
> > >
> > > I have a similar setup on my generic PII333 system and it works fine.
> > >
> > > The dmesg output on the HP system has lines which indicate that the driver
> > > for the USB controller (Intel 82371AB) and the ethernet card (vr0) can't map
> > > the I/O space.
> > >
> > > The only wierd thing about the HP as far as I can tell is its sound/modem card
> > > containing some kind of Rockwell chips that aren't recognized by the GENERIC
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Short of pulling out the sound card, which I'd rather not do since this
> > > has to be a dual boot system, does anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Pennington              Introl Corporation, Milwaukee, WI USA
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> >
>
> --
> Richard Pennington              Introl Corporation, Milwaukee, WI USA
> Email: rich@introl.com          Phone: +1 414-273-6100  Fax: +1 414-273-6106
>                                 US and Canada: 1 800-327-7171
> Cross development tools for the 68HC05, 68HC08, 6809, 68HC11, 68HC12, 68HC16,
> and 68XXX:                      http://www.introl.com   ftp://ftp.introl.com