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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Zenkar)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Enabling PnP devices on EISA bus
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:38:34 GMT
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I just purchased a Tyan Tempest II motherboard which is EISA/PCI.  I
have a Cardinal MVP288IV fax/voice modem that is PnP.  It is not
recognized by Windows NT unless I boot into dos, run the PnP config,
then soft boot to NT.  While running the EISA config program, the
program found the Cardinal modem.  I'm wondering if anyone out there
has successfull configured a PnP device when it resides on the EISA
bus prior to booting into an OS.  I know it is possible to send INIT
commands to devices using the EISA macro language, but I'm a little
vague on how to do that so that the modem would enable before it hits
the OS.  I realize that I'd have to set the IRQ and the Port address
before enabling the modem.  Does anyone have any helpful suggestions
about doing this, or what I'd have to write to in order to do this?

Thanks in advance!
Matthew Zenkar
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