From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 16 20:53:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06746 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 20:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA06723; Thu, 16 May 1996 20:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA09525; Fri, 17 May 1996 13:34:22 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605170404.NAA09525@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PnP Modem: US Robotics To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:34:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brandon Gillespie" at May 16, 96 06:41:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brandon Gillespie stands accused of saying: > > I have a pentium system with a PnP bios. It runs Win95 on one partition > and I am working on getting FreeBSD on another. I am having a bit of a > problem with the modem however. It is a US Robotics Sportser internal > PnP modem. In Win95 I managed to get it working (after frobbing my sound This is the basic problem. Being a PnP device it's not actually present as anything at all. PnP support is being worked on, but as it's basically bogus in the extreme progress is not the fastest. > card config). Win95 reports it as being configured as: > > COM: 3 > IRQ: 5 > Address: 110 *LAUGH* 0x110? You have got to be joking 8( sio2 is at 0x3f8. > UART: NS 16550AN I doubt this bit very much. You may also have to frob the sio driver source code to handle the sluggishness of response of the emulator on the card. ... and people wonder why I tell them to buy external modems. *sigh* > -Brandon Gillespie -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[