Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960918202601.225K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3238EAC2.7155@alaska.net>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > > > i can't wait for a new sio driver! > > I didn't know one was in the works. i recently read somewhere that that was the case. I haven't been tracking -current or -hackers but nothing has come through the commit logs. > > This is not FreeBSD's fault entirely -- apparently your Hayes requires > > some sort of initialization and does not properly initialize at reboot. > > Internal modems don't appear to work very well with FreeBSD. I've seen > > more problems with unresponsive internals than externals. > regarding init - it does have standard Hayes/Inet defaults ... > it was brand new. I was meaning that the card may be waiting for some sort of probe that DOS does (?) but FreeBSD doesn't do, or it's onboard UART emulator isn't completely compatible with a standard UART, thus FreeBSD can't read it. > how would i test that out when the kernels probes don't find it at boot > time? i would imagine certain kernel table entries get marked as > "off/inaccessable" when a probe fails - disallowing use of the device > by normal methods. I woudn't know. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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