Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:10:47 +0200 From: Willy Offermans <Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Willy Offermans <Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV Message-ID: <20110525141047.GE3842@vpn.offrom.nl> In-Reply-To: <986DD7FA-E426-4261-8DB0-6F9063CE9BF6@gsoft.com.au> References: <20110521092037.GB3271@vpn.offrom.nl> <20110522071642.GA61515@icarus.home.lan> <986DD7FA-E426-4261-8DB0-6F9063CE9BF6@gsoft.com.au>
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Dear Daniel and FreeBSD friends, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 22/05/2011, at 9:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> However, as the boot process already mentions, there is no driver attached > >> and I cannot get the modem to appear as an accessible and functional > >> device. Is there someone, who can help me to get this modem to work? > > > > It would be helpful if you could specify what FreeBSD version you're > > using. > > > > Assuming 8.2 or RELENG_8: no promises, but puc(4) is probably what > > you're looking for. I would try adding: > > > > puc_load="yes" > > > > To your /boot/loader.conf, then see what happens after booting. uart(4) > > may auto-attach to that. Again, no promises. > > I have my doubts it would work though, most likely it's a soft modem which will only work with proprietary drivers. > > I couldn't find any details on the web page though so you might get lucky I suppose :) > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > > > > > > According to the manufacturer (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) it is not a soft modem, but a ``hardware'' modem. It says: Built-in processor does the work, so your computer doesn't have to. I do not know if this is sufficient to work under FreeBSD, but it seems to indicate that it does not need any proprietary driver. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Willy ************************************* W.K. Offermans Home: +31 45 544 49 44 Mobile: +31 681 15 87 68 e-mail: Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl
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