From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 14 22:00:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA15534 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15529 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA23737; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:00:55 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: ian.saunders@tswi.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie installation question. In-Reply-To: <9704158610.AA861078767@ccsmtp.tswi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*