From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 8:20:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF93E37B42B for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F69E5D1A; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:16:43 -0800 (PST) To: leegold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what does my dmesg say? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:19:38 EST." <3C43022C@operamail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:16:43 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020114161643.9F69E5D1A@ptavv.es.net> 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 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:19:38 -0500 > Sender: leegold > From: leegold > > In dos lingo I need to get com1 working? > I have an isa hardware modem, I think it's > jumpered for com1. In any event, whatever I have it > jumpered for - I have to make sure the bios that port enabled? > > Is that what you're saying? Not DOS, since BIOS is a hardware linked thing and applies to any OS that is running on the platform. It's just that on IBM laptops, the traditional interface to BIOS at system boot time is augmented with a software tool that runs under DOS and that tool is needed to enable or disable ports. On laptops the tool is "ps2". Whether there is a similar tool for Aptivas, I don't know. I'd check the IBM web pages if you don't have documentation for the box. Look for "BIOS setup" and "DOS Configuration Tool" or something like that. Good luck. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message