Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:38:40 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: "P.A.Osborne" <P.A.Osborne@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@CRWdog.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes.... Message-ID: <20021126023840.5934F27F@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from "P.A.Osborne" <P.A.Osborne@ukc.ac.uk> of "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:26:00 GMT." <20021125172600.GA20073@banyan.ukc.ac.uk>
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--==_Exmh_1547228416P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > 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, No you wouldn't, because it maps to the device you're trying to use, and the problem lies elsewhere... :-/ > finding that out seems to be nigh on impossible, hence my mail asking > if anyone had been round these hoops and succeeded. Just to relieve the FUD, this is a working Lucent Winmodem device node: andy@tureg[169]-> ls -lrt /dev/cual0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 228, 128 Nov 23 23:31 /dev/cual0 andy@tureg[170]-> grep cual /etc/ppp/ppp.conf set device /dev/cual0 Looks identical to your entry to me. That's not the issue. > > 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. Replace it with one that's supported... ;-) This is identical to the one I've got. I even bought it from this guy IIRC, he's obviously got 100's because everyone's busy fitting the AC'97 part instead: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2074332041 This search should turn up a few dozen: http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&; query=IBM+combo+mini-PCI&cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&ht=1&fr om=R10&currdisp=2&itemtimedisp=1&st=2&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&srchdesc=y &BasicSearch= Cheers, AS --==_Exmh_1547228416P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE94t6wPHh895bDXeQRAlZRAJ90UaBfiERyXVll6lPEY5ijXSx4ywCfUXZ5 hpxMtj7rBUbXq29Zl4E6OPQ= =xUgh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1547228416P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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