From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 11:28:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zipcon.net (zipcon.net [209.221.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 068DD37B405 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29132 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2002 19:28:55 -0000 Received: from suave.zipcon.net (HELO there) (209.221.137.29) by zipcon.net with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 19:28:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Herman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:26:31 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <15493.57962.747011.357711@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15493.57962.747011.357711@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020306192824.068DD37B405@hub.freebsd.org> 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 Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:33 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > David Herman types: ------------snip---------------------------- > > I know, read the handbook... but it sure would be nice to have some basic > > functions set up when the install is done. > > Actually, you want the ports tree. Try installing the port > misc/instant-workstation. Of course, that's only *one* persons view of > what a workstaton should be. Since I'm one of those rare few who hate > the rodent, mine is probably somewhat different. > > > For example - I'm still searching the documentation for information which > > will help me to get my internal ISA modem (hardware based "NOT" win > > modem) working. > > So far the best I've found is "recompile your kernel". I find it hard to > > believe that I need to recompile my kernel as the first thing I do after > > installing the OS. > > If you want the kernel to do something that it isn't designed to do, > yup, you have to do that. The one time I tried it, the Generic kernel > found the thing and I could use it immediately. Have you tried > configuring the modem to use irq 5 or 9? Or disabling COM2 and having > the modemuse 3? Can these be set at runtime or do I need to do it in bios? (that would be a PITA as I've already got 4 other OS' on the machine that recognize the settings as they are. Thanks for the tips! I'll check them out when I get the chance. dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message