From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:00:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24054 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24048 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05083; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Josh Emmons (skia)" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem on com1 (sio0) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire (I didn't have a choice) 28.8 modem set to com1. > Everything works fin on the Windows95 side of things (I have 95 and BSD on > the system), but when I go to BSD, the probe never finds sio0 ot the > specified address. I'm useing the same addres windows uses to find the > modem and still nothing. > To make things stranger, it worked once. Only once. I did't change > ANYHTING and it worked. I rebooted and it lost it again. haven't gotten > it to work after that. FreeBSD appears to be very picky about internal modems. I see hoards of them on this list that won't probe, while other people swear by them. You might try moving it to COM2 and see what you get. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major