From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 08:11:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E94AE16A4BF for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.tovaris.com (postoffice.tovaris.com [209.145.65.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E0243FEA for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmalone@tovaris.com) Received: from pbs.intranet (node1.tovaris.com [209.145.65.48]) h91FAnY6073258; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:10:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmalone@tovaris.com) Received: from pbs.intranet (fw [216.12.13.47]) by node1.tovaris.com ([209.145.65.48]); 01 Oct 2003 11:10:50 -0400 (EDT) References: <20031001065531.CD57955B@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> From: "Josh Malone" To: "Andy Sparrow" Sender: jmalone@pbs.intranet Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20031001110719.J15077@pbs.intranet> In-Reply-To: <20031001065531.CD57955B@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information cc: "Timothy J. Luoma" cc: "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: pppd + winmodem on Del i7500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:11:04 -0000 On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andy Sparrow wrote: > > I've added the ltmdm driver (Lucent Winmodem) and made the corrections > > necessary so that it is loaded from /modules and not just in rc.d (as was > > recommended to me by someone who is familiar with running FBSD on this > > computer). > > OK, whatever. I don't have any need to do that on 4.x. Is this so you > can run 'pppd' at startup? On a laptop? This was my suggestion - the makes the kld load before the kernel. The ltmdm port seems to load the kld from /usr/local/etc/rc.d after the kernel has booted and this caused problems on the Dell i7500 - the modem wasn't detected properly. > > So I edited MYKERNEL and removed the 'disable' for 'sio2' and I changed it > > to be irq 9 > > > > I did the MYKERNEL stuff and make depend/make/make install/reboot. > > > > When I checked dmesg it said: Just having sio2 there should do - you shouldn't need to define irqs, etc. This would only be necessary for a non PnP ISA serial port I believe. > I have the following in my kernel conf, note I don't specify anything > (e.g. irqs or orts) for potentially dynamically-attached serial devices: > > # Serial (COM) ports > device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 > device sio1 > device sio2 > > I seem to recall that this is the way it is so I can use the built-in > serial, built-in (Win)Modem and a "real" serial-based PC-CARD all at the > same time if I feel like it without re-configuring. This should work for you, Tim. -Josh -------- In God we trust...everything else we use X.509 --------- Joshua Malone, Systems Administrator Phone: 434-245-5300 x119 Tovaris IP, LC Fax: 434-245-5301 www.tovaris.com jmalone@tovaris.com