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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000914095817.A24290>