From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 4:54:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F4637B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 04:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-140-138.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.140.138]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA57663; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:53:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <023901c0d55a$1b913d10$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Dale Chulhan - Home" , References: <3AF3E7D6.F5A4FE65@uwi.tt> Subject: Re: My modem still not wukkin' Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:54:11 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it a winmodem ?? .... if so the best thing you can do with it is donate it to some needy Windows user. I've seen some posting recently that suggests there is a patch to make these abortions work in FreeBSD but I've never had the inclination or the need to try making water run uphill. Far easier to beg / borrow / steal / hire a proper external hardware modem that connects with a regular cable to COM1 or COM2 (and I don't mean one of those moronic GSM mobile disasters that are, to all intents & purposes, only external winmodems) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Chulhan - Home" To: Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 9:45 PM Subject: My modem still not wukkin' > Hello people, I'm in a bit of a situation here and I can't fing any help > already on the web .... > > I'm using a copy of FreeBSD 3.1 and and Aztec Modem. > > Over the last couple of days I have tried to get my modem workind and I > cannot get it to work. > > In windows 98 Se it says that my modem is COM4 .. I read that FreeBSD > cannot use COM 4 because it shares an IRQ with COM2 and that I should > change it... > > How do I change it if my modem is plug and play and there are no > jumpers? > > Any how I tried to "boot -c" and there were error messages saying that > sio2 and sio3 were not found also. > > Do I really Really Have to go rebuild the kernel for this to work? > > Thanking you in advance. > > Dale E. Chulhan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message