From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 20:59:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA07153 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 20:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07127; Thu, 16 May 1996 20:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA18758; Thu, 16 May 1996 20:56:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605170356.UAA18758@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PnP Modem: US Robotics To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 20:56:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brandon Gillespie" at May 16, 96 06:41:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.