From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 16:18: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A996014E10 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10Zjjh-000Ak7-0K; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:15:25 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA00424; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:14:41 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id AAA00827; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:10:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:10:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Marius M.Rex" Cc: freeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modem on sio4? Message-ID: <19990421001045.G252@marder-1> References: <19990420224937.3262.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990420224937.3262.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net>; from Marius M.Rex on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:49:37PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:49:37PM -0400, Marius M.Rex wrote: > I am definitely making progress on this. I am trying to get my PnP modem > to work under 3.1-Release. O.K. we have recompiled the kernel with > "controller pnp0" the pnp id is in sio.c ...and the modem does actually show > up in my dmesg when I boot up. (Dance of joy!) > Now the modem shows up at sio4. I technically only have 2 serial ports > (which MS-Windows would call com 1-4), and I do not have any funky multi-port > cards or anything. Have you added sio4 to your kernel config file? It only has sio[0-3] by default. > Now the modem takes up the irq and the memory access address of sio1 > (irq 3, starting at 02f8) I have sio1 disabled via /boot/kernel.config, > so I don't even probe for it. (it is not disabled in the kernel itself - but > I could do that if it would help.) It would help if you posted the boot messages (use dmesg(8)) > My question is, can I just "./MAKEDEV cua5" and leave the modem at sio4, It would be cuaa4 (note the double "a"!), not 5, both sio and cuaa are numbered from 0. I would guess that if it was found as sio4 at boot then cuaa4 should work, won't harm to try. > or do I have to do something more complicated to get the modem to show up on > another, more nominal, serial port? And if I have to mess with the settings > on the pnp modem, how would I go about that? (It would have to be a software > solution, as there is no way to change the serial port settings on the > hardware device itself.) > I am hoping that I can just make new device entries, but I am a Un*x > newbie and am timid about running super user functions, as I might screw > things up. I am a good little do-bee and read my docs, but I am unsure about > this one. Please guide. > > > Marius > All life is a dance; > I just wish I wasn't so clumsy. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message