From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 07:25:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04943 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 07:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygnus.rush.net (root@cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04930 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 07:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA04372; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:58:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:58:34 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch To: Ken Seggerman cc: Philippe Regnauld , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptop credit card modem & emacs fails In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if its a modem, it should automagically use the serial driver *shrug* I have el-generic Eiger 56k modem in mine and it works fine. I'd say that if you have a Xircom Ethernet card, then you might have a slight problem ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > I have since rebuilt the kernel from the PAO /stand/sysinstall. Now > instead of showing a zp probed, I have card0 - card3 devices in /dev. > > My PCMCIA card does indeed have four slots, and the Xircom credit card > modem is plugged into the first card0 slot. > > Setting the device in ppp.conf to /dev/card0, now allows user PPP to > attempt to dial (before there was no valid device to set it to). > > It attempts to dial out, but there is no dial tone, the little light on > the credit card modem dongle does not light up and dial fails. > > Now I wonder is there further tweaking I can do, or am I stuck with an > incompatable credit card modem? How can I find out? If I do find that the > Xirocm is not compatable, the PAO installer has a list of known good > modems. > > Next step (unless I get further advice) is to try hooking the laptop up to > an external modem and trying that. At least that would allow me to access > ports, but it is not a mobile computing solution. > > Thanks again, > Ken > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message