From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 13:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA (mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.24.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9884F37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA (IDENT:root@phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.20.20]) by mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01212; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:42:59 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA30017; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:42:58 -0400 Full-Name: Antoine Beaupre Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Antoine Beaupre To: Gary Kline Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP modem not recognized at boot, but by pnpinfo(8) In-Reply-To: <20000914095817.A24290@athena.sea.tera.com> 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 On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:15:02PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > > Here is a long-shot suggestion: check your BIOS configuration > to be certain that it matches with what the probe is looking > for. Something very similar happened to me when trying to > configure my backup FreeBSD-4.0 system with a modem on ``COM2'' > and the problem was an incorrectly set BIOS. Hummm.. What is the probe looking for? What am I looking for in the BIOS? The only thing I could see would be the section where I setup the "PnP/PCI config". There I can set a few variables such as: Resources controlled by: auto [auto|manual] {This is a list of IRQs appearing only when I set the above parameter to "manual", they all default to PnP/PCI} Irq X : [Legacy ISA|PnP/PCI] where X ranges from 1 to 15 It is possible that this is a BIOS problem since I had a CMOS battery problem between the upgrades (lucky me:)), but then again how come the modem works in windoze? I'm really tired of using the crappy so-called "HyperTerminal" to connect to the "net". And I don't trust windows a bit for security. This modem thingie is the only thing that keeps me from throwing Windows out of the window. :)) A. -- It is now safe to throw your computer out of the windows To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message