From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 25 10:23:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2018C37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [209.63.227.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C61243EAF for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18GNtV-0008Kw-00; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:23:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3DE26A9B.2A718BC0@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:23:23 -0800 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P.A.Osborne" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes.... References: <20021125105914.B240@luthien.ukc.ac.uk> <3DE247B8.26B557AE@softweyr.com> <20021125172600.GA20073@banyan.ukc.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "P.A.Osborne" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:54:32AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > > cual0 (or sio0) is almost certainly NOT your winmodem. I suspect it is > > an onboard serial or IR port, as is sio1. More reading of the ltmdm > > documentation might reveal how to discover what sio device node is > > associated with the winmodem when the module attaches. You'll then need > > to use the /dev/MAKEDEV script to create /dev entries for that sio node > > if you don't already have them. > > Thats the problem exactly! > > If I *knew* what device it really mapped to then I would be laughing, > finding that out seems to be nigh on impossible, hence my mail asking > if anyone had been round these hoops and succeeded. The last time I tried ltmdm (quite some time ago) it seemed to take the first non-allocated sio, which would be sio2 in your case. It's at least a good starting point. > > Or you could do like the rest of us and buy a pccard modem that doesn't > > suck. ;^) > > That is something that I don't want to do until I am certain that the > winmodem is not an option. If you do get it working you're not likely to be impressed by the through- put or the load imposed on your system. I certainly wasn't. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message