From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 28 07:56:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21373 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tomcat.sac.verio.net (tomcat.ns.net [209.162.64.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21366 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DanielS@sac.verio.net) Received: from pro-server (pm03-27.sac.verio.net [209.162.64.93]) by tomcat.sac.verio.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA23668 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:56:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19981128144941.008ce92c@wingate> X-Sender: DanielS#mail-1.sac.verio.net@wingate (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:49:41 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Dan S." Subject: Modem connection Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed freebsd v2.2.7 on an old 486. It has a Promise IDE controller with a 540 meg WD & a 420 meg Conner, it also has a 3-com etherlink II nick card in it. The system boots just fine & I am able to telnet or ftp to the internet via my NT 4.0 server box which has wingate installed on it. My problem is when I try to plug in a modem card the system will not boot.. it tells me to insert a bootable floppy in A drive. I've tried both a pnp modem card (before & after recompiling a kernel with the pnp device) & I've also tried a non-pnp card with jumpers set to com1 irq4, com2 irq3, com3 irq5, and hoping for blind luck I've tried every single configuration possible. Also when I do try to boot using the floppy install disk I get a scrolling error message that says: ERROR: D:0x80 C:0 H:0 S:0 Now.. could this be a problem with the board? modem? Or perhaps I need a external modem? Any input you could provide me with would be greatly appreciated. Dan S. DanielS@sac.verio.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message