From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 18:17:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90FB909 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@aboutsupport.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com (mail-ee0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640BDE4D for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id b15so58835eek.39 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:17:08 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=eyUnqPnPikVBTjUo+0ZHmqHaVRmyVekqgwpxlyt6e88=; b=QK/Fqrgk6V5325kWX9WhlufHTDHRZlBaFptyeByxlvcJzMhlDIwLKoLftHVRwm7lTR 5JOobdk3NqW9PaAnHsq0/W857ZL/uACOwRI/3DeHcfOfhrodLljujUhWR6pZdSC99g1m thEbva1MLsCS6WTo9/c9GR9XWfONzqAi7+INPkXaowXOJdB4qsXghnM9QVe7TMFkn82R UQTbMspScZ3ejUsRU5x2xoM7cDSHZH9cdPVOGNOIs651td9xRv9vRlJESfe7k3p9dUK1 liMC3CWMsGpCai2yOAO/Sg0SiTK8F/JUJwAZNDuAL+pU7GKtsJvmTPvK2HFXq8vDQALw CHFg== X-Received: by 10.14.215.197 with SMTP id e45mr195799014eep.0.1357841828045; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.30.1.168] ([95.87.193.58]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 44sm4404857eek.0.2013.01.10.10.17.06 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:17:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50EF05A1.3090701@aboutsupport.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:17:05 +0200 From: "Zyumbilev, Peter" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: installing a new device driver References: <1357726153.65344.YahooMailNeo@web160101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1357727151.2340.13.camel@q> <1357730185.55465.YahooMailNeo@web160101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <50ED543D.6040400@aboutsupport.com> <44d2xeuwue.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <44d2xeuwue.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmeYJqqjJ1QWWqqa6QTrD/tBQjLO6XuNNyg+IQ+rvWeAOrsW9BApLBevNMTsfAZytiUY8IN Cc: Lowell Gilbert , Jack Mc Lauren X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:17:09 -0000 On 09/01/2013 18:47, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Zyumbilev, Peter" writes: > >> On 09/01/2013 13:16, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: >>> This is the output of pciconf -lv : >>> >>> vendor = 'FarSite Communications Limited' >>> device = 'G.SHDSL Intelligent Sync Comms Card (FarSync DSL-S1)' >>> class = simple comms >>> >>> So what is the next step ? >>> >> >> >> I would strongly advise connect to the modem via network cable and TCP/IP. > > Since the "modem" is a PCI card, plugging it into the computer and > connecting to it over the PCI bus is required. Talking to the device > through the serial driver is correct. > > First it's necessary to know whether this card requires a firmware > download. I would guess probably not, but I can't find any definitive > information on it to be sure. > > Second it's necessary to know what kind of connection the ISP expects it > to make, in order to configure it. Very likely either mpd or ppp will be > able to work with it. The appropriate serial device may be the one at > the start of the line preceding the pciconf output we were shown. > > I doubt newbie can do all this. The only viable option I see is a DSL modem as a separate device. Peter