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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:15:53 -0500
From:      "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To:        "Robin Hall" <rob33_me@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Modem  device not configured
Message-ID:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKEJACKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011228013559.10608.qmail@web20509.mail.yahoo.com>

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You are the user who the 3.x setserial command was designed for. Your only
option is to get a external modem and write a bug report to FBSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Robin Hall
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 8:36 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSD Questions
Subject: RE:Modem device not configured

I am sorry I should have said earlier. This modem is
not PNP. I can't find anything that is really
pertinant  on this page. I have an AOpen FM56-ITU/2
modem.

Robin E. Hall


--- Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> You are in a hole caused by very poor management of
> FBSD change control. At
> 4.0 a change was allowed in to stop a conflict
> between isa and pci internal
> modem hardware probing. This change for all purposes
> closed the door for pci
> internal modems. There used to be the pnp,
> setserial, and pnpinfo commands
> which allowed you to hack around the isa prob
> results to get a pci internal
> modem to work. Now all that is deactivated and pci
> modems users are left out
> in the cold. Maybe if enough people write problem
> reports this will get
> fixed. One would think that 2 years would have been
> enough time to get this
> fixed since 4.0 came out.  If your modem is a isa
> modem then you should be
> able to get it working following the FAQ at this
> url.
>
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#PNP-N
> OT-FOUND
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> Behalf Of Robin Hall
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:46 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: device not configured
>
> Ok I moved the jumpers on my modem to com 2 or cuaa1
> or sio1 whichever it is.
> Now when I boot up to install freeBSD 4.4 stable it
> gets to the point of
> detecting hardware and just stays there.  Does BSD
> not
> like modems? How am I
> supposed to install this so that I can use it as a
> router with a dialup
> connection? Why would it freeze on detecting
> hardware
> if I have the modem set
> to cuaa1? When I was getting it installed it
> wouldn't
> install kde or any
> windowmanager. I did get it to startx with just the
> bare bones x. I have 24
> MB of Ram is this enough to use a window manager?
>
> Robin E. Hall
>
> On Wed 26 Dec 01 12:10, Andrew C. Hornback wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> Behalf Of Robin Hall
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 6:36 AM
> > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> > > Subject: RE: device not configured
> > >
> > >
> > > I have an internal AOpen modem. This is a
> hardware
> > > modem. I have the jumpers set to com 3 in
> windows
> > > which is ttyS0 in linux and should be cuaa2 in
> > > freeBSD. Why isn't this showing up on the
> correct
> > > port?
> > >
> > > Robin E. Hall
> >
> >       If you're using the GENERIC kernel, it only
> supports devices on classical
> > COM 1 and COM 2.  To support any other COM ports,
> you need to compile a new
> > kernel with support for those ports.  A look at
> the
> GENERIC config file
> > should of assistance.
> >
> > --- Andy
>
>
> =====
>
> Robin E. Hall
> rob33_me@yahoo.com
>
>
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