Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:47:54 GMT From: Lars Eighner <lars@larseighner.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/155196: Uart cannot identify internal modem or its chip Message-ID: <201103021447.p22ElssW067591@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201103021450.p22EoBis056157@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 155196 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Uart cannot identify internal modem or its chip >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 02 14:50:11 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Lars Eighner >Release: 8.1 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: uart cannot identify 3COM PCI FAX/MODEM and misidentifies its chip as 8250. This is the ONLY internal PCI hardware modem in existence and has been (and remains) the only choice for an internal dial-up modem. None the less uart can manage to connect ppp using tun on boot, but cannot reconnect on demand. sio worked and replacing it with something broken seems a step backwards. >How-To-Repeat: Attempt setting up ppp on demand with the internal hardware 3Com PCI FAX/Modem in any 8.x. >Fix: downgrade to 7.x with sio >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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