Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:58:39 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: "Josh Malone" <jmalone@tovaris.com> Cc: "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pppd + winmodem on Del i7500 Message-ID: <20031001165839.E7D9F55B@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from "Josh Malone" <jmalone@tovaris.com> of "Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:10:22 EDT." <20031001110719.J15077@pbs.intranet>
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> > > 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. Ahh, OK, I understand now - thanks for the clarification! Regards, AS
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