Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:23:23 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "P.A.Osborne" <P.A.Osborne@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes.... Message-ID: <3DE26A9B.2A718BC0@softweyr.com> References: <20021125105914.B240@luthien.ukc.ac.uk> <3DE247B8.26B557AE@softweyr.com> <20021125172600.GA20073@banyan.ukc.ac.uk>
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"P.A.Osborne" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:54:32AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thats the problem exactly!
>
> If I *knew* what device it really mapped to then I would be laughing,
> finding that out seems to be nigh on impossible, hence my mail asking
> if anyone had been round these hoops and succeeded.
The last time I tried ltmdm (quite some time ago) it seemed to take the
first non-allocated sio, which would be sio2 in your case. It's at least
a good starting point.
> > Or you could do like the rest of us and buy a pccard modem that doesn't
> > suck. ;^)
>
> That is something that I don't want to do until I am certain that the
> winmodem is not an option.
If you do get it working you're not likely to be impressed by the through-
put or the load imposed on your system. I certainly wasn't.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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