From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 12:53:37 2003 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 CC24B16A4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A265E43FD7 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 22-15.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.22.15] helo=192.168.63.10) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A0RJD-0006P0-00; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:52:51 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Sean Hafeez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:52:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309191452.50363.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4be9d17bfe935589daab80561dbaf51887350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: modem on serial port? 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: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:53:37 -0000 On Friday 19 September 2003 12:35 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote: > i am using a freebsd box as a router. it has a serial port. i would > like to hook up a modem and use it to manage the router if the lines go > down. now i know you can use the serial port as a console but how about > when i stick a modem on it. does anything change. anything i need to > install? > > thanks! > If the serial port is sio0 (COM1) or sio1 (COM2), you won't need to do anything. If it's sio2 or sio3, you'll need to enable those serial ports in the kernel. In FreeBSD 4.*, it's an easy adjustment to the kernel configuration file -- just find the sio lines and delete the word "disable". In FreeBSD 5.*, it's different; and we'll both have to wait for someone else to chime in! Best of luck, Andrew Gould