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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:10:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Paul Merchlewicz <bjlpcm@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zoom Modem FreeBSD 5.1
Message-ID:  <20031015050852.M20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <200310012116.33503.bjlpcm@earthlink.net>

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Paul Merchlewicz wrote:

> I just installed FreeBSD on my Inspiron 7000 laptop and I noticed that
> when my Zoom 2975L modem is inserted I get a kernel panic (with the
> stock generic kernel).  This happens when I insert it and then boot or
> when I insert it after booting is complete.  I have also recently found
> that if I do a warm boot from my Windows session, FreeBSD can correctly
> detect and configure the modem and not have a kernel panic.  I guess I
> was wondering if there was some way to have FreeBSD detect the card
> without having to first boot windows.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Because I happen to have one of these, and I'm tracking RELENG_5_1 on my
Latitude C810, I went ahead and checked (I haven't needed to use the modem
since I upgraded from RELENG_4), and I get the same thing.  Booting with
the card inserted causes a panic, or insertion post boot causes a panic.

Jamie Bowden

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