Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Thomas A. Halter" <webmaster@gp-flash.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Card Modems and PPP Connections Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161524331.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807162035040590.003BC7D5@gp-flash.net>
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Thomas A. Halter wrote: > I installed FreeBSD from a partition on my dos drive for my > notebook, a 486dx4 100. The first install proved to me that the > system just needed the 200Mb if I wanted to run Xwindows. So I > reinstalled, installing the docs, man pages and the binaries. > > I figured, i'd do what I did when I installed linux at home, and > simply get the ppp connection up and download the xwindows files and > install them. Well...the best of plans...<g> > > I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to get my pccards to > work. I currently have two of them, a 3Com Ethernet/Modem Combo card > and a Reveal 14.4 fax/modem. Now on the boot, it see's both of them; > however, it lists them as zp during the boot. They are not present as > zp in the dev directory, they are however, present as card0 and card1. > I looked at the POA pages and think that I have already got this part > installed, since the pccard.conf.sample was already in the directory. > I created a pccard.conf based upon the sample, and tried it. No luck. > I changed the rc.conf to YES for PC Cards. No luck. Combo cards are not explicitly supported; if you can get the modem to work that is about all you're going to get. This is why I don't suggest buying combo cards. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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