While trying to debug a linux sound driver on my new ASUS A7V8X mobo I changed the Plug-n-Play OS setting from 'no' to 'yes' in the BIOS.
When I rebooted the machine back into FreeBSD I got watchdog timer error messages from the Broadcom (bge) ethernet driver and the network was unreachable in spite of the chip being correctly detected and the routing correctly set up. After regaining my composure I finally realized that changing the BIOS setting back was all I needed to do. But it did make me realize that I would not have been able to install FreeBSD on this machine if just by chance that BIOS setting had been on 'yes' when I started out. I never would have figured out why the network wouldn't work right. Makes me wonder how many other mysterious problems might be due to the same thing and if there is something simple that could be done to prevent them? Maybe something as simple as including a warning in sysinstall that the PnP BIOS setting can cause problems? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
