Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:59:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Patrick Lutz <kellutz@telusplanet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem Problems Message-ID: <19990406195930.Q1360@marder-1.localhost> In-Reply-To: <370A6070.E6EA2A4@telusplanet.net>; from Patrick Lutz on Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:28:48PM -0700 References: <370A6070.E6EA2A4@telusplanet.net>
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On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:28:48PM -0700, Patrick Lutz wrote:
> On my FreeBSD 2.2.7 machine I have an internal 56K modem (Viva
> CommCenter). This works fine on COM3 on Windows, but will not work on
> FreeBSD. The settings were changed in the kernel to the proper irq
> settings (according to the Windows settings) yet in the boot sequence
> the message would indicate that "irq 11 not in bitmap of probed irqs"
> and "sio2 not found."
>
> Looking at the information on the FreeBSD site, I tried enabling PnP
> detection by adding "controller pnp0." Following this, it would find
> the modem, and gave the following information:
> CSN 1 Vendor ID CPI4173 0x7341090e Serial 0xd0959b5
> CSN 1 disabled.
>
> I added the new id number and a description string to the
> /sys/i386/isa/sio.c file, and I also changed the "sio2" line in the
> kernel so that it would not take the PnP card's IRQ. The FreeBSD site
Are you getting confused here with the DOS numbering of serial
ports? FreeBSD numbers from 0. sio0 == COM1, sio1 == COM2. IRQ3,
0x2f8 are the default values for sio1/COM2, not sio2.
> also stated that I may have to add a manual configuration command in the
> boot-time configuration like:
> pnp 1 0 enable os irq0 3 drq0 0 port0 0x2f8
>
If you haven't disabled sio1/COM2 then you've got a conflict here.
> However, I can not seem to get anything to work, and FreeBSD does not
> communicate with my modem. Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick Lutz
> kellutz@telusplanet.net
>
>
>
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