From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 9 13:50:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C9B37B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7710043E6E for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 9E0284FC97; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962F74A0E; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: "Brandon S. Davis" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Modem and sound card help? In-Reply-To: <290EDB4766222A4D8CC1B57D9B1C5CA9C113DA@midlandnts.ad.midman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Brandon S. Davis wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:39:35 -0500 > From: Brandon S. Davis > To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" > Subject: Modem and sound card help? > > > I've got a 3COM USR 56k Courier V.Everything modem and Sound Blaster Live! > > on my computer system. I've recently acquired FreeBSD 4.6 from a retail > > location and I can't seem to get the OS to detect my modem nor my sound > > card. I managed to get my video graphics card and my optical mouse to > > finally work, but that is it. Can you provide some detailed directions on > > how I can get this to work with both of these I/O devices. Oh yeah, I'm > > extremely new to the FreeBSD OS and I'm really anxious to hop on the net. > > I've started learning Perl, C, C++ and various other languages to help me > > out. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brandon > The SBLive! you may want to wait a bit on - you'll need to learn how to rebuild your kernel first as you need to add sound support. See the sound section of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html We'll need a little more info to help with the modem. You use the 'dmesg' command to get info from your kernel about what devices are detected and configured. run 'dmesg' and look for any info pertaining to your modem. Also, with PCI devices, it's a good idea to turn *off* PnP support in your BIOS before continuing. Since you have no network (yet) you may need to dump the output from 'dmesg' to a floppy or some such so you can post it here. The modem may or may not be supported, check first. There's a file called (I think) HARDWARE.txt in the top-level of you CD which describes what hardware is supported. Your SBLive will work fine, but you'll need to learn how to roll your own kernel first. BSD proceeds from a 'start out minimal, add what you need' approach rather than trying to support everything out of the box. HTH - JB PS: The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message