From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 19:06:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08579 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08566 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA05938; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:05:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:05:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: David Hodge <#dlhodge@ix22.ix.netcom.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requring information or process in proper configuration of ppp or installation of FreeBSD Kernal for PCMCIA modem access. In-Reply-To: <3313375E.3206@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, David Hodge wrote: > The problem that I am experiencing is that the modem on my NEC VERSA > 4230 notebook computer cannot access its PCMCIA modem card. I am now > wondering if there some steps that I may have forgotten to include when > configuring PPP configuration files. Or perhaps I neglected to select > the proper options when configuring the kernel on my system. If you are > aware of any area that I can visit, documenting that I can acquire, or > if you have any information that could help me resolve this problem I'd > appreciate it. The system does not recognize PCCARD modems by default. You need to install the PAO package. You can get PAO from http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO. I've used this package on three laptops and it is a joy to set up and run. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major