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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:32:03 GMT
From:      "Chris McNett" <chrismcnett@hotmail.com>
To:        uditoru@hotmail.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 
Message-ID:  <20000722193203.17978.qmail@hotmail.com>

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You might should get release 4 (you probably should anyway).  First try 
using minicom or something with each com port.  Most likely it should pick 
com1 or com2 and put it there.


>From: "shawn ." <uditoru@hotmail.com>
>To: questions@freebsd.org
>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:02:48 GMT
>
>Greetings,
>
>My problem is as follows: I recently bought a new modem for the sole 
>purpose
>of using it under freebsd. My previous modem had been a
>winmodem, so I made sure this one was not. However, this is strictly a PnP
>modem, I can't set anything up with the jumpers as there is no jumpers to
>speak of.
>
>Following the instructions from the FreeBSD handbook, I added "controller
>pnp0" to my kernel, recompiled it, then rebooted. On startup, there is no
>evidence of it even probing for PnP devices.
>
>Following advice from someone on efnet's #freebsd, I disabled the PnP
>feature on my BIOS. Rebooted. No difference. Added "options PNPBIOS" in my
>kernel, recompiled, rebooted. No difference.
>
>Reading the mailing list archives, I decided to try to find my PnP ID using
>pnpinfo. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have pnpinfo on my system, nor on
>the cd. I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.5.
>
>I'm really not sure what to do at this point.. I have a 3Com USR PCI modem,
>model # 5610, v.90.
>
>I would be very happy to receive any guidance. Thanks for your time.
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