From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 7: 3:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B5A137B40A for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 64124 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jun 2001 14:03:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15151.23464.598862.36853@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:03:20 -0500 To: Parker Brown , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Internet Access Over CableTV In-Reply-To: <15151.21830.277392.837408@guru.mired.org> References: <39590841@toto.iv> <15151.21830.277392.837408@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer types: > Parker Brown types: > > I've just retired my trusty 56K modem and opted for DSL-like speeds > > (256/64) and "always on" through Charter Communications, my local Cable > > TV company. Attachment is via UCB. > > > > My question is: before I go hacking through my configuration files, can > > someone tell me if support for that kind of Internet connection exists > > in BSD 4.3. Dmesg indicated that it located the Linksys UCB adaptor and > > labelled it ugen0. Will I need to get a special driver? > > I think you'll need to *write* a special driver for it. If it's > labelled as ugen0, it's not recognized as either a modem or ethernet > internface, and you're not going to be able to use it. > > The best solution is to go back to Charter Communications and beat on > them until you get a box that connects via ethernet instead of USB. One last thing that I forgot - try building a kernel with the umodem device as a static device. You'll need usb and either uhci or ohci, though both won't hurt, as well. That kernel may recognize it as a USB modem, in which case you can use it that way. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message