Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:43:43 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Sivar" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, "Sam Suh" <sam@bigstudios.com>, "Korey Pelton" <peltkore@hotmail.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: modem not detected by probe- Not WinModem Message-ID: <001601c15e2c$9bf3c260$6600000a@columbia> In-Reply-To: <OE57F5LV69ArTCSdY5v00015640@hotmail.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sivar > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:28 AM > To: Sam Suh; Korey Pelton; questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: modem not detected by probe- Not WinModem > > Addendum to Korey's email, his modem is a US Robotics Performance > Pro -- Not > a winmodem and not a hybrid hardware/software modem. The USR PP is a full > 100% hardware controller-based modem. > I have had it work in SuSE with no special config. (Not that this > makes it a > hardware MODEM, the actual specs say that it is a hardware modem--as > hardware as a USR Courier internal purchased in 1993 before > Winmodems really > came about). The problem seems to be that FreeBSD doesn't want to believe > that the modem is a serial controller. It makes a "COM5" in DOS > terms, as do > most internal modems. Seeing as how I have never configured any modem in > FreeBSD--I just use ethernet--I really have no idea how to help past the > handbook. COM5 corresponds to sio4, I believe. The GENERIC kernel only addresses sio0 and sio1. He'd have to have a kernel with callouts up to sio4, or find a way to move the modem to a different COM port, and have the corresponding sio device in the kernel configuration. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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