From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 13 0:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EC237B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 00:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 69DBD6ACBE; Sun, 13 May 2001 17:04:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:04:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Klee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying DESPEATELY to instal some kind of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010513170424.I86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drwho@futureks.net on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:13:01PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 12 May 2001 at 19:13:01 -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi, Here's the situation: > > I have a copy of FreeBSD 3.2 on a 4 CD set from Walnut Creek and a 4.2 > CD from a friend. The 4.2 CD is not working, and locks up in the middle of > an install. I went back to 3.2 and it works great. I want to upgrade, but > I don't know how to get the modem to work. I have a choice of COM5 and my > modem is on COM2. No matter where I put it it is ALWAYS on COM2. FreeBSD doesn't use those terms. What does *it* tell you? Run the dmesg program and look for lines mentioning sio0, sio1, etc. Send them in reply to this list and we'll see what's going on. > Next, if I can figure out how to tell BSD 3.2 to find my US Robotics > 56k modem. Then I need to know what tools ar availible to upgrade > to 4.3 maybe even an unstable version if I am feeling ballsy. 4.3 is stable. The easiest way to install it is to get the CD, or if that's too much money, download the ISO. There are other ways, but they're more complicated. > I am at wits end, if someone could recommend an IRC server and > channel for help with FreeBSD, I would appriciate that as well. Well, there's #FreeBSD on efnet, but I don't think I can recommend it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message