From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 20:43:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06264 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01844; Wed, 20 May 1998 23:37:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199805210337.XAA01844@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: The unending conflict: modems and mice In-Reply-To: <01BD8433.909E8BB0@MANNY> from Dave Bender at "May 20, 98 09:09:19 pm" To: bendede@startribune.com (Dave Bender) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:37:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Bender wrote after reformatting: > I've run into what seems to be a perrenial > problem for me on a PC: a mouse/modem conflict. I've dealt with > this in DOS, then in Windows, and in WindowsNT (which I dumped in > favor of FreeBSD). > > Now it appears to have reared its ugly head in FreeBSD. > > But this time I'm stumped as to where to turn. I'm new to Unix (at > least sysAdmin stuff) and I'm not sure what to do. > > Here are symptoms I've seen: > > + When I enter the tip command, and type "AT" the machine freezes. > I have to reboot. > > + In another iteration, tip froze, but if I moved the mouse I got > all sorts of frenetic, weird output on the screen. I also had to > reboot. Post the output of dmesg after a boot. This sounds like an IRQ problem. > The modem is a brand spanking new US Robotics jumperless Plug and > Play 56K modem (motherboard /bios is also PnP -- does that matter?) That's spelled "Plug and Pray" or "Plug and Prey". :) > so I don't know how to tell what port/irq it selected. How can I > find that out from the OS? (Dmesg) > The mouse IO/card is an old generic thing that's been with me for > many moons. (It worked OK when NT was on this particular machine.) > The mouse is self is a $5 computer show special. It ain't the mouse, probably. > I unplugged the mouse and rebooted, but got the same behavior with > the freezing at the AT Specifically I entered: > > $tip cuaa0b connected Sure that's the right device name? The usuals are /dev/cuaa0 ...1 ...2, ...3 corresponding to COM1,...4. > If I don't use the modem (don't enter a tip command) the mouse > works fine. It shows up and a test in Xwindows says it's functional. Then it is. IO or IRQ conflict, no doubt. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message