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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de!user From: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet cards Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:39:51 +0200 Organization: It's just me, myself and I Lines: 15 Message-ID: <petzi-3107960039510001@apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de> References: <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca> <4rp5vh$6f7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4rp5vh$6f7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) wrote: > In article <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca>, Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> writes: > |> I notice the FreeBSD home page says that PNP PCI cards > |> are not supported and that those features must be > |> turned off for PCI ethernet cards to work. Where did you read that (URL) ? I never heard about PnP PCI cards. The IRQ settings on PCI cards are done by the mainboard bios, so it depends on the mainboard bios whether that is plug-and-play, or you assign the IRQs manually. Michael