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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 08:07:28 -0700
From:      lures@mozcom.com
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD 4.0 & PCI PNP 56K INTERNAL MODEMS
Message-ID:  <230500144.29246@207.206.68.136>

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I am using FreeBDS 4.0 GENERIC kernel with two Aopen 56k
PCI PnP modems that do not have jumpers to set com or irq.
Want to use one for dial out connection to my ISP
(com1 cuaa1) and the other to accept dial in calls
(com2 tty1). Want this FreeBDS server to function like an
ISP server using modems instead of NIC over T1.

After the BIOS Post completes the 
PC Bios PCI Device Listing for the two modems shows

Bus No Device No Func No Vendor Id  Device ID IRQ
   0      18        0      127A       1005    12
   0      19        0      127A       1005    5

During the startup of FreeBSD the Probe issues the
following Messages

pci0 <unknown card> (vendor=0x127a, dev=0x1005) at 18.0 irq 12
pci0 <unknown card> (vendor=0x127a, dev=0x1005) at 19.0 irq 5

I also get this same Info when I issue command pciconf -l

My questions are
1 What is FreeBSD trying to tell me with these msgs?
2 What is the PnP ID for each modem?
3 What do I have to do to activate modems, assign them
  device names, and setup modem to dial my ISP at bootup
  using Kernel PPP and setup the second modem to answer
  dial in calls using  	Kernel PPP?


Blind alleys I have gone down.
 
I have read a lot of mailing-list messages dealing with PnP
modems being WINmodems and that they just don't work with
any release of FreeBSD. This sure was true with 3.4 and
older FreeBSD versions but Version 4.0 says this has been
fixed. Version 4.0 was just released in March 2000 and the
documentation has not been updated to give info on how to
get it to work in FBSD4.

One of the mailing-list messages says to add the modem's
PnP ID to the serial driver table in /sys/i386/isa/sio.c to
activate the modem.  Well version 4.0 does not have a file
sio.c in that directory path.  This must be out of date
info.

I also tried manual boot-time configuration using
pnp 18 0 enable bios   But pnp command is nolonger valid
at  boot -c   in FBSD 4.0.


Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Joe Barbish

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