From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 12:36:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20894 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (root@[206.206.98.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20874 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott.cr.usgs.gov (aslpca.cr.usgs.gov [136.177.121.30]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA20750; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:36:59 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960215205056.00ad1d10@thuntek.net> X-Sender: thor@thuntek.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:50:56 -0700 To: garya@dreamchaser.org, Nate Williams From: Scott Halbert Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 11:09 AM 2/15/96 -0700, garya@dreamchaser.org wrote: > > >On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Nate Williams wrote: >>> You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, >>> the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently >>> has no default port addr and irq: >>> >>> Supra Express 288i PnP >> >>Is there any way of setting the port and IRQ via a DOS program? Most of >>the 'software selectable' hardware I've gotten has some program to setup >>the software under DOS. > >Yes, but I don't think its sufficient. >Here's what I tried: > Don't forget that there is another problem going on here. Not only do you have the PnP problem to deal with, but FreeBSD has some problems seeing some internal modems even if they are there and properly set up (there are some delay problems in the driver). > >Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) > garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) ---Scott Halbert (thor@thuntek.net) Thunder Network Technologies