From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 19:10:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03664 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns1.noc.best.net (root@dns1.noc.best.net [206.86.8.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03654 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by dns1.noc.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA12566; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:10:40 -0700 Received: from free.emmert.com (emmert.vip.best.com [204.156.142.218]) by shellx.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA26378; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:56:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Emmert To: Jason Garman cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comm port trouble in 2.1.5 install In-Reply-To: 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, 16 Jul 1996, Jason Garman wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Steve Emmert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Made a boot floppy of 2.1.5 -RELEASE to show my buddy how cool FreeBSD is! > > When I selected FTP install and COM 2 (/dev/cuaa1) then went to iij-ppp > > the modem would not respond to "at". I then did a "show modem" and found > > the device set to COM 1 (/dev/cuaa0). No amount of hacking with the option > > selections or "set device" in iij-ppp would work to get the modem on-line > > even when "show modem" displayed /dev/cuaa1. I took the disk back home and > > tried it on my system with the same results. I even FTP'ed a new boot.flp > > but nothing seems to work. My old 2.1 boot floppy works but a 2.2 -SNAP > > boot floppy fails too. > > > I got bitten by his one too. A workaround that I found was to select "com > 1" from the install menu, and do a set device /dev/cuaa1 from iij-ppp. It > took me several hours of continuous head-banging to figure this out :-) > > It seems that if you do a 'term' with one device open and then change it > with "set device" it ignores the change, which was really annoying me at > the beginning... > > -- Jason That did the trick 8-) thanks, now when Jordan changes the premissions back to 755 on 2.1.5 -RELEASE, we'll get this mother installed!! --Steve Steve Emmert steve@emmert.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles---but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -Marcus J. Ranum