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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:55:37 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Adrian Parker <jedi@brockville.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No modem?
Message-ID:  <19991113135537.J3947@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa>
References:  <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa>

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-On [19991110 00:01], Adrian Parker (jedi@brockville.com) wrote:
>Perhaps someone can help me.

I can.  I forwarded it from -doc to -questions where it belonged in the
first place.

>I recently went through the FreeBSD install, or tried.  Everything
>worked ok accept the install via FTP.  It doesn't seem to detect my
>modem.  It's a USR 56.6 V90 (ISA) running on comm port 2.  This modem
>does not seem to be detected while starting the install process (when
>it checks for PnP, PCI, and ISA devices).  When it tries to gather the
>packages for installing the system, it doesn't dial.  I use the dial
>command, as request, in the 3rd Virtual Console.  Soon after it returns
>that the dialup is dead.

Tried specifying debug mode in options and check vty2 why it flunks?

>I had it dial my second phone line to verify that the modem wasn't dialing
>at all.  I was correct, it wasn't dialing.
>
>What could be wrong?  I know my modem is on Comm 2.  And I know it works
>because I'm using it now in Win98 (it also works just fine in Linux).  Is
>there any way to solve this?  I don't want to image copy everything to
>floppy and install that way, just so that I can boot the OS and fight with
>the modem settings (downloading everything is a pain on dialup).

The notion that something works on Windows 98 or Linux is not a
guarantee that it works under FreeBSD.  It might, then again it might
not.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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