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From: Gavin Haslett <thumper@brainfart.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Plug And Pray...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 20:18:19 -0600
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No, I don't like it particularly... but I still have a legacy PnP card
in my system from when I was an avid Win95 user (all of 6 months ago).
Problem is, I want it to work in FreeBSD too... and of course it
doesn't.

So far the only way I can get it to work is to do a warm-boot from a DOS
prompt after it's run the PnP manager and stuff like that... then it
works fine (it's a sound-card... SB32 PnP FYI)... from a cold-boot it
fails miserably. This is awkward because I really want to get shot of my
DOS partition completely if I can, at the moment I use this to boot
first, warm-boot then load BSD.

I've seen mention of people trying this before, and a friend of mine
pointed me to FTP://freefall.freebsd.org/incoming/*PnP*... but surprise
surprise I can't find any reference to *PnP* in the incoming directory.

Help... it's driving me to the point where I might actually start
considering installing Linux instead of FreeBSD :-)

Oh, and please email me a response as well as posting it here if
possible, my news-reader is flaky at best and doesn't seem to always
pick up on the groups I really wanna see :))

Cheers...

Gavin Haslett
thumper@brainfart.com

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