From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 22:39:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08025 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08018 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00686; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:39:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Roy Dacosta cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem not being detected on sio1: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Roy Dacosta wrote: > I seem to be having problems with my 14400 internal modem under FreeBSD > 2.2.2-RELEASE. The modem is attached to sio1: (DOS COM2:) and my > motherboard BIOS has it's onboard COM2: disabled. The modem also has a > 16450 UART onboard. > > It will find the onboard COM1: properly, but reports: > > > sio1: not found at 0x2f8 > > Is this a shortcoming in the kernal released with the new floppy set? Do > I need to recompile the kernal for it to see it? Your modem isn't responding properly. Try moving the internal modem around to different slots. This has been happening recently and I don't quite know what causes it. Some timing differences in 2.2.x seems to not notice modems that came up OK under 2.1.x. > I would try moving the modem, but I do occasionally use COM1 for null > modem, and I have no other IRQ's available. (Seriously!) I believe it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo