Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:04:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <199906300004.BAA22881@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:47:21 %2B1200." <199906292347.LAA03319@aniwa.sky>
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Sounds like interrupt confusion to me. Are you sure your IRQ is correct ? > I've been trying to get an old 486 going as a router. I've got two modems > I've been trying to use - one external 28.8K, one internal 56K. I'm seeing > the same problem with both, and both modems are known to work OK with other > machines. > > What I'm seeing looks like some sort of problem in buffering of output. I go > to PPP, and enter terminal mode. Whenever I enter anything, the reply is > always one step behind where it should be. > > I type A - nothing echoed. > I type T - the A gets echoed > I type D - the T comes through > I type T - the D comes through > I type <return> - the T comes through and the modem goes off hook (not > connected to phone line at present, so it drops again). > I type <return> - the "NO DIALTONE" message comes through. Could have typed > anything, it's the output that the modem would have already > generated one step earlier. > > > I'm using a freshly installed 3.2-RELEASE machine. I saw the same symptoms > once before with a PCMCIA modem under 2.2.5-RELEASE. On that machine, using > the external modem worked fine (the same external modem). > > Does anyone know what's going on? Is there a fix? > > > Andrew > > > -- > > Andrew McNaughton > +64 4 389 6891 > andrew@scoop.co.nz > http://www.scoop.co.nz/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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