Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:34:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP Modem: US Robotics Message-ID: <199605170404.NAA09525@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960516183731.7746B-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at May 16, 96 06:41:10 pm
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Brandon Gillespie stands accused of saying: > > I have a pentium system with a PnP bios. It runs Win95 on one partition > and I am working on getting FreeBSD on another. I am having a bit of a > problem with the modem however. It is a US Robotics Sportser internal > PnP modem. In Win95 I managed to get it working (after frobbing my sound This is the basic problem. Being a PnP device it's not actually present as anything at all. PnP support is being worked on, but as it's basically bogus in the extreme progress is not the fastest. > card config). Win95 reports it as being configured as: > > COM: 3 > IRQ: 5 > Address: 110 *LAUGH* 0x110? You have got to be joking 8( sio2 is at 0x3f8. > UART: NS 16550AN I doubt this bit very much. You may also have to frob the sio driver source code to handle the sluggishness of response of the emulator on the card. ... and people wonder why I tell them to buy external modems. *sigh* > -Brandon Gillespie -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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