From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 15:28:48 2004 Return-Path: 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 730B116A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC3D43D1D for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:28:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rmvg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.179]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HUD00KCHVVZT9@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:28:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml7so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.151]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HUD0014DVVZWS@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:28:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from shaw.ca ([68.146.233.221]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HUD00F13VVZA8@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:28:47 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:29:12 -0700 From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN In-reply-to: <000801c406ee$3e98c940$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> To: Mike Maltese , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <404FA4C8.9090606@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 References: <404F9188.6060002@shaw.ca> <000801c406ee$3e98c940$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> Subject: Re: 3com modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:28:48 -0000 Mike Maltese wrote: >>Have a 3com pci internal vioce modem installed in my 4.9 stable system >>but don't seem to be able to activate it sould this not happen >>automagically? I do not see it in the dmesg logs at all i am pretty >>sure that comm ports are compiled into the kernel. How do i go about >>ckecking it or troubleshooting something that does not appear to be >>there i need somewhere to start please help. >> >> > >This is more than likely a "winmodem", i.e. it only runs under Windows with >drivers. If you want to use a modem with FreeBSD, get an external unit. > > > > It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines just not this one yet.