From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 4:46:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21ADC37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp0.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CC0C43E42 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 27266 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2002 11:46:18 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-133-74.nfas.greensburg-tnt-2.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.74) by smtp0.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 13 Sep 2002 11:46:18 -0000 Received: from MOTHER (dhcp-20.wg.local [192.168.1.20]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F6448449; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "jean" , "Matthew Emmerton" Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:48:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2472) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <01fc01c25acc$c6e91ef0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: U.S Robitics 56k Performance Pro Modem Message-Id: <20020913115509.19F6448449@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:25:06 -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > >> i would like to know if my U.S Robitics 56k Performance Pro PCI Modem >> is supported in the current release of FreeBSD it is a hardware modem >> ofcource i was unable to get it talking with FreeBSD-4.4 and had to >> migrate to Linux where it is fully supported by the kernel ppp I realy >> like what BSD has to offer . If it is not supported perhaps the kernel >> developers can borrow some code from Linux that might be something to >> look into Thank you > >This modem can be supported, but not without some changes to the serial port >driver. > >There is a patch available in PR/41227 that is known to work without >problem, but theoretically may cause problems. I got mine working with 4.6.. however, it was with a compaq where i could set the PnP i/o in the bios, then just used the visual kernel config to change sio1 to the address i specified in the BIOS. works good so far. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 7FEC 10AA 056B F8DE AC1E 6965 FBBE 9601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message