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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:06:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Korey Pelton <peltkore@hotmail.com>
Cc:        <sam@bigstudios.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: modem not detected by probe
Message-ID:  <20011025180523.M94341-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F10nzNwRC6Hixq000145aa@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Korey Pelton wrote:

> Sam,
>
> Thank you for your reply.  The USR Performance Pro
> is an $80 modem that has its own controller, yet it
> is a PCI, therefore FreeBSD has a tough time finding
> it.  I have had a little success however.  I gathered
> information from Windows98, which I run on the
> same machine, and applied as much of it as I could
> to the sio4 line in my kernel config file (because
> Windows says it is on COM5).  And now I have this
> in my dmesg (these are only the meaningful lines):
> ....
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x12b9, dev=0x1008) at 12.0 irq 11
> ....
> sio4 at port 0x6500-0x6507 irq 11 on isa0
> sio4: type 16550A
> ....
> As you can see, it is now seeing a com port on
> sio4.  Here is my only sio line in my kernel
> config file:
>
> device    sio4  at isa? port 0x6500 irq11
>
> That is the most amount of info I could put in
> the line without /usr/sbin/config giving me
> an syntax error mesg.  I got that info from
> Windows98.  When I try to test it with tip, I
> get the message "link down" and then it
> quits.  So where should I go next?
>
> Trying to find a clue,

<snip>

Hi Korey,

Is PnP OS disabled in your CMOS? If it isn't, disable it and see if that
helps your dmesg.

Dru


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