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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
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:43:43 -0400
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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


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