From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 21:26:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA29746 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA29657 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:20:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id AAA02483; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:17:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:17:39 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Mark Bayles cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot connect via FTP? In-Reply-To: <32CC6D88.7646@h130.aone.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm not sure if this is your problem but modems are customarily addressed in "callout mode" -- meaning cuaax instead of siox. Try using /dev/cuaa1 and see if it works. On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Mark Bayles wrote: > To who ever, > > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 2.2-BETA from scratch. I have > been hitting a brick wall when it comes to connecting to a BSD site > that allows downloading via FTP. I enter all relevant information in the > "TCP-IP" setup, then when I go to the ALT-F3 screen and type 'term', I > cannot talk to my modem! I know my modem is on COM2(/dev/sio1) but when > I type nothing comes back to the terminal screen. Same with the TXD & > RXD lights on the modem. It seems as if FreeBSD cannot open the port. On > boot it displays information about the sio0 & sio1 ports & knows that > they are 16550's. What am I doing wrong? > > For furtur information I have tried this on two different computers with > differnt modems and have the same result!? The only common factor is the > serial ports being both on the motherboard! > > > Kind Regards, > > Mark the new "novice" in the block. > Ben