From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 07:06:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13788 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zX40E-0003cY-00; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:45:10 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:45:10 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: i98 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/sio1 arhgg! Message-ID: <19981024144510.A13887@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199810240432.AAA00948@exodus.dycon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199810240432.AAA00948@exodus.dycon.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i98 wrote: > My kernel booting, (dmesg info) won't detect /dev/sio1, which is where my > modem is. I don't think there is a /dev/sio* set of devices, you access your modem through /dev/cuaa1 if it is on the second serial port. But are you saying that `dmesg | grep sio1' doesn't show it anyway? > I have the irq and everything correct, its exctly how it says it > in my computer's manual. But i have had no luck getting it to detect. I > have tried MAKEDEV an all. I hope you didn't run `MAKEDEV sio1'? You'll need `MAKEDEV cuaa1' > But I wanted to make sure of this before I go downloading all the > source to find out it wont work. Just download the source and build a custom kernel, are you saying you haven't done this yet? Among other things, building my own kernel has made my hard disks shitloads faster. :-) As well as getting rid of all the network card crud which I have no need for -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message