<rauch@eecs.ukans.edu> (Richard Rauch) writes:

> Both have some hardware (as seen by dmesg) accesed via ISA,
> however.  (lpt?, com?, fdc?, pckbc?, npx?)

All super-IO fodder, except for npx, which is really on the CPU. 

> (Minor aside: If you have ISA in your system, you apparently have to
> disable the ``Have a PnP aware OS'' BIOS option.  I don't understand
> exactly what PnP does, but recall having problems when I experimentally
> turned it on, once.  I had turned on the option because NetBSD seemed to
> support PnP (``isapnp'', for example).  I had naive hopes that I could use
> the ISA modem that shipped with the machine; I can't (it's a
> ``WinModem''), and prefer external modems anyway.)

Probably "pnpbios" rather than "isapnp" to not lose devices. The two
mechanisims are used for (usually) different sets of devices.

        - Nathan