Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:51:49 -0600 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx> To: "Ross Potts, CON, EDS/D-SIDDOMS" <rpotts@med.osd.mil> Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibilities Message-ID: <350FED7F.16B98F1B@ver1.telmex.net.mx> References: <9803180940.ZM-250013@161.14.168.22>
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Ross Potts, CON, EDS/D-SIDDOMS wrote: > > I have a Motorola ModemSURFR 336. This card has a jumper that allows me to > enable or disable PnP, plus jumpers for setting COM 1-4. Has anyone had > pleasant experience with this piece of shi@*&#@#(OOPS, I mean piece of > hardware)? I bought it to replace a jumperless Compaq card. Internal hardware > is not my strong suit. > > Here is my configuration( minus the modem): > > Compaq Presario(What a phreakin' mistake!) > P133 16 MB, 1 free parallel, 1 free serial, 1.6 Gig HD, PS/2 Mouse > FBSD 2.2.5-Release(I stripped the default kernel down of all but the syscons and > psm0 conflict, which is allowed), then enabled all the serials to see if they > could be found. Didn't work. > > I got a borrowed external modem to work off the serial. > > Am I wasting my time with this? I know the easy way out is to buy an external. > I just configured a noname internal modem as com3/sio2 with jumpers at 0x3e8 irq 11 and it works fine and leaves me with com1/sio0 for my mouse and com2/sio1 free :-) Maybe I was lucky because this piece of #@!"hardware" had jumpers, if it hadn't who knows? ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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