Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:09:25 -0400 From: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: US Robotics modem Message-ID: <v04220800b75da2312c31@[66.44.71.193]>
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Hi, I'm trying to configure a US Robotics PCI controller-based modem (model # 3CP5610A) to work with FreeBSD 4.3 (dual boot machine with Win95). Or I'm trying to configure FreeBSD to work with the modem. The modem insists on being installed on COM5 and assigns itself IRQ 10. Somehow, in the process of trying to find a way to get the modem to use an IRQ associated with a more reasonable port, I switched it to IRQ 5, but I have no idea how. According to the online documentation at the US Robotics web site, the modem is supposed to allow itself to be assigned only IRQ 10. At any rate, when I assign the modem to COM1 and then reboot in FreeBSD, the OS finds the modem at sio0, and then moves sio0 to sio4. This happens with the modem using either IRQ 10 or 5. Currently the modem works in Windows on COM5 with IRQ 5. Windows provides information only on COM1 and COM2, so I'm confused about COM3, 4, and 5. I also don't understand why the modem has to be installed on COM5 when 1 and 2 are unused. (The modem card has no jumpers.) At this point, my best guess is to recompile the kernel with sio0, sio1, and sio4 enabled, and 2 and 3 disabled. (Both COM3 and 5 are currently using IRQ 5, and I think the same thing will happen with sio2 and sio4. I don't know how it works on Windows, but I gather from the documentaion that it won't work on FreeBSD.) If anyone reading this has ever successfully installed one of these modems and used them with FreeBSD, please let me know how you did it. Bob Hall Know thyself? Absurd direction! Bubbles bear no introspection. -Khushhal Khan Khatak MySQL list magic words: sql query database To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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