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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        ian.saunders@tswi.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie installation question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970414220013.21244D-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <9704158610.AA861078767@ccsmtp.tswi.com>

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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 ian.saunders@tswi.com wrote:

> 
>      I installed FreeBSD last night, everything seemed o'k.
>      
>      I went to fire up pppd only to find that the install did not detect my 
>      internal modem attached to COM3.
>      
>      Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>      
>      
>      Cheers Ian ...

Try moving your modem to COM2 or COM1.
Since COM3 shares an IRQ w/ COM1, and 4 w/ 2, it can cause conflicts.

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