Re: interacting with ISA PnP devices.

1999-08-14 Thread Timo Geusch
Ted, from my limited experience with FreeBSD & ISA PnP cards (I'm fiddling around with the 3COM Etherlink III driver) I would suggest that you need to write a driver to talk to the card simply because you have to be able to retrieve the card settings. However I found the ISA PnP functionality extre

Re: interacting with ISA PnP devices.

1999-08-14 Thread Timo Geusch
Ted, from my limited experience with FreeBSD & ISA PnP cards (I'm fiddling around with the 3COM Etherlink III driver) I would suggest that you need to write a driver to talk to the card simply because you have to be able to retrieve the card settings. However I found the ISA PnP functionality extr

interacting with ISA PnP devices.

1999-08-12 Thread tbuswell
Hi, What is the path of least resistance for getting an unsupported ISA PnP device to the point where you can do I/O to it (inb,outb)? Do I need a driver, or is there some general purpose way for getting the device "up" to the point that you can use /dev/io and a user space application? (on -cur

interacting with ISA PnP devices.

1999-08-12 Thread tbuswell
Hi, What is the path of least resistance for getting an unsupported ISA PnP device to the point where you can do I/O to it (inb,outb)? Do I need a driver, or is there some general purpose way for getting the device "up" to the point that you can use /dev/io and a user space application? (on -cu