From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 19:25:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05866 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05856 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA09239; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:54:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980718115423.B337@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:54:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satwant , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem on Toshiba laptop (freebsd 2.2.6) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i gFrom: Greg Lehey In-Reply-To: ; from Satwant on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:25:25AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 17 July 1998 at 11:25:25 -0500, Satwant wrote: > > Can anyone please help me with my modem problem. > > Having spent more than 5K to have a laptop exclusively for my freebsd use, > I discovered that the problem of getting on network using modem is not a > trivial one. > > WIN95 shows I have : > > COM1 : Serial port : 3f8 : IRQ 4 > COM2 : Toshiba internal modem : 2f8 : IRQ 3 > > But in freebsd while booting it says : > > sio0 not found. > sio1 not found. > > Any attempt to dial thru ppp after that on /dev/cuaa1 says: > > device not configured. Yes, after the previous messages, it would. This looks like a problem we had a while back with serial ports. Check out http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html for further details. If this is the cause, the upcoming 2.2.7 release should have a fix in it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message