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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 20:56:03 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PnP Modem: US Robotics
Message-ID:  <199605170356.UAA18758@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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> 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 
> card config).  Win95 reports it as being configured as:
> 
>     COM: 3
>     IRQ: 5
>     Address: 110
>     UART: NS 16550AN
> 
> When FreeBSD boots and probes sio2 it comes up with nothing.  Could the 
> problem lie in the Address?  If so, what would be the appropriate 
> 'port' in the kernel config?  Help?  :)

Disable PnP on the modem and hard code it to 110 (or whatever).
Then tell the kernel where it live (boot with -c, use "visual").

Alternately, the most recent -current *might* find it, since it has
some PnP support.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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