From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 21:45:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.hosting4u.net (janus.hosting4u.net [209.15.2.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A70E237B9F7 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@friends-tv.net) Received: (qmail 31387 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2000 04:45:44 -0000 Received: from jupiter.hosting4u.net (HELO friends-tv.net) (209.15.2.9) by janus.hosting4u.net with SMTP; 24 Apr 2000 04:45:44 -0000 Received: from blade ([195.217.165.3]) by friends-tv.net ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:45:41 -0500 Message-ID: <040001bfada8$2cd571c0$0100a8c0@blade> From: "Andy Coates" To: Cc: References: <03f501bfada5$33b3be50$0100a8c0@blade> <20000424003240.J70371@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Modem Problems Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 05:47:17 +0100 Organization: Friends-TV.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Andy Coates" Cc: Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:32 AM Subject: Re: Modem Problems > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 05:26:00AM +0100, Andy Coates wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to get my modem to work (internal ISA) and had loads of > > problems so far. > > > > Basically I thought it was on COM3, but the only /dev/cuaaX i can use is 1 > > (COM2). When I do use this, nothing happens when I try to dial. I downloaded > > minicom just to test the dialing, and entered a manual number, but it just > > sat there syaing it was dialing and the time counting down. This manual > > number was my mobile phone, and it didn't ring. I also have a phone attached > > to the line - picking that up had dialing effort from the modem either. > > > > It seems to initialise properly, but when I try open the port and dial > > nothing seems to happen. Any got any ideas what I might be doing wrong? > > What does, > > % grep ^sio /var/run/dmesg.boot > > Say? That will tell us "where" your modem is. It could very well be > sio2. Can you not use cuaa2 because you have not created the > associated devices in /dev? % grep ^sio /var/run/dmesg.boot sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A and crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 Apr 24 05:44 /dev/cuaa0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Apr 24 05:44 /dev/cuaa1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 130 Apr 24 05:44 /dev/cuaa2 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 131 Apr 24 05:44 /dev/cuaa3 I've tried each cuaaX and still only cuaa1 will even let minicom startup. With it being an internal modem I can normally hear it "click" as it opens the port for dialing, but I don't hear anything. Have I missed setting something up? TIA, Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message