From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 02:46:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22484 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:46:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id KAA00672; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:45:56 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:45:56 GMT Message-Id: <199803231045.KAA00672@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id KAA08586; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:42:45 GMT From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert Jackson CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP 4 BSD In-Reply-To: <96751469@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Jackson said: >I also have a PnP modem (SupraFax 33.6) and to install it under BSD I >just had to set up the next COM port. i.e. I have COM 1 and 2 on a board >in my cpu.The modem then comes up and creates COM 3, BUT it's at IRQ 5. >Just enable COM 3 under the visual config boot, and it should work >(assuming of course that you have only 2 COM ports.) FreeBSD doesn't seem >to work with com ports that share IRQ's (Like if you were to have 2 I/O >boards [COM1, irq4;COM2, irq3;COM3, irq 4;COM4, irq 3]) If all else fails >you could check under WinBLOWS device manager and check out the resource >list for the modem, then configure FreeBSD to comply. And if your motherboard has broken or nonexistent PnP support you will also need to install the PnP kernel patch from and use the boot config program to actually map the card onto that third sio port. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0xE8A64271 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message