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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:58:17 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        Antoine Beaupre <beaupran@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PnP modem not recognized at boot, but by pnpinfo(8)
Message-ID:  <20000914095817.A24290@athena.sea.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009141151590.1259-100000@blc24.IRO.UMontreal.CA>; from Antoine Beaupre on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:15:02PM -0400
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009141151590.1259-100000@blc24.IRO.UMontreal.CA>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:15:02PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've upgraded my machine to FreeBSD 4.1 release recently (clean
> install) and the kernel is not recognizing my modem. (Please note that
> I've read the FAQ, the handbook, searched the mailing lists, read a few
> man pages and hacked some of the kernel source, still no luck. Please read
> on.) I'm thinking of sending this to -hackers, since it's recognized by
> pnpinfo(8) and not on boot (is this normal?).
> 
> Extract from dmesg output:
> 
> sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> [...]
> unknown: <CIRRUS LOGIC PnP V34 MODEM> can't assign resources
> [full dmesg output included at the end of this mail]
> 

	[[ ... ]]

> 
> If I get this to work, I'll submit a PR for the FAQ entry, and the sio.c
> source, but right now, I don't know how to work this out, so a PR will be
> my last resort. There must be something I missed. I fear that the modem
> _might_ just be a winmodem, but then, it would never have worked out in
> FBSD 2/3.x...
> 


	Here is a long-shot suggestion: check your BIOS configuration
	to be certain that it matches with what the probe is looking
	for.  Something very similar happened to me when trying to
	configure my backup FreeBSD-4.0 system with a modem on ``COM2''
	and the problem was an incorrectly set BIOS.

	gary




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