Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:54:32 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Paul <pao@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes.... Message-ID: <3DE247B8.26B557AE@softweyr.com> References: <20021125105914.B240@luthien.ukc.ac.uk>
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Paul wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an R31 Thinkpad that has a Lucent Winmodem,
> and am having trouble getting the thing to work under FreeBSD.
>
> I have installed the comms/ltmdm port, this fails to
> work (the kernel module is loaded) but pciconf doesn't report
> the hardware device.
>
> A rummage round the net, revealed that I should turn off PNP
> in the BIOS - thats not an option on the R31.
>
> So I tried the following in my kernel config:
>
> options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES
>
> as suggested by the driver developer (I forget the name), at the
> moment the only error I get when I start ppp is:
>
> luthien# ppp
> Working in interactive mode
> Using interface: tun0
> ppp ON luthien> dial isp
> Warning: deflink: /dev/cual0: Bad file descriptor
> ppp ON luthien>
>
> However the file is there:
>
> luthien# ls -la /dev/cual0
> crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 228, 128 Nov 25 10:29 /dev/cual0
cual0 (or sio0) is almost certainly NOT your winmodem. I suspect it is
an onboard serial or IR port, as is sio1. More reading of the ltmdm
documentation might reveal how to discover what sio device node is
associated with the winmodem when the module attaches. You'll then need
to use the /dev/MAKEDEV script to create /dev entries for that sio node
if you don't already have them.
Or you could do like the rest of us and buy a pccard modem that doesn't
suck. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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