From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 20:33:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02108 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.186]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02077 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00300; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: hmmm cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: modems In-Reply-To: <3238EAC2.7155@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > > > i can't wait for a new sio driver! > > I didn't know one was in the works. i recently read somewhere that that was the case. I haven't been tracking -current or -hackers but nothing has come through the commit logs. > > This is not FreeBSD's fault entirely -- apparently your Hayes requires > > some sort of initialization and does not properly initialize at reboot. > > Internal modems don't appear to work very well with FreeBSD. I've seen > > more problems with unresponsive internals than externals. > regarding init - it does have standard Hayes/Inet defaults ... > it was brand new. I was meaning that the card may be waiting for some sort of probe that DOS does (?) but FreeBSD doesn't do, or it's onboard UART emulator isn't completely compatible with a standard UART, thus FreeBSD can't read it. > how would i test that out when the kernels probes don't find it at boot > time? i would imagine certain kernel table entries get marked as > "off/inaccessable" when a probe fails - disallowing use of the device > by normal methods. I woudn't know. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major