From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 17:19: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7002E37B41B for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2A65578307; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:48:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:48:51 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: James Starr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Modem problems (was: Newbie who is fed up with windows!) Message-ID: <20020324114851.D45519@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Overlong lines On Friday, 22 March 2002 at 20:00:56 -0800, James Starr wrote: > Hi, > > I've had about all I can stand of windows. I know very little > about using Unix, but my first attempt to set up FreeBSD seemed > pretty straight forward. Only trouble was the modem. Because I'm > pretty new to this, I get frustrated when I can't make something > work. But I'm not so frustrated that I'll stick with windows. I > scoured The Complete FreeBSD, but everything I tried doesn't seem to > work, and I'm not that much of an idiot. Shouldn't I be able to > install the right modem driver from sysinstall? No. > Anyone's suggestions or help will be much appreciated. Well, since you have The Book, how about saying what you tried, and what happened? You haven't even said what you want to do with the modem. There's quite a bit of information about modems in the book, but there are also a number of things which can go wrong. Installing drivers is not one of them. > Help a Microsoft victim break free! Help us to help you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message