Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:11:46 -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.3.94.960913220935.615K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <323A15D0.6C2C@alaska.net>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > no replies necessary. something is really screwy here. > i can't wait for a new slick sio driver! I didn't know one was in the works. > i had a 14.4 ISA Hayes modem. after coming to the conclusion > that you cannot configure an internal modem & com port on the > same port & irq, i still had problems. Yes. No device conflicts, period. > the kernel reported sio 2&3 not found. after thorough testing, > i found that whenever the kernel reported this, all i had to do > was boot DOS, run COMITs modem diagnostics, then reboot to BSD. > the kernel would then find sio3 without fail. but if a crashed > iijppp, and had to reboot, sio3 would be lost again, and i'd > have to do the COMIT thing again. 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. > with a working stable setup - as above - i then disable sio2. > sio3 (modem) is now permenantly lost. no tricks find it this time. > so i re-enable sio2. sio3 found immediately. > > i'm an embedded hacker scaling the walls of unix, and > ain't too smart, but this definitly seems like buggy behavior. Hm. If you could figure out just what the Hayes is waiting for we could fix that up. (I have an external Supra that works wonders). 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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