Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:55:37 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Adrian Parker <jedi@brockville.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No modem? Message-ID: <19991113135537.J3947@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa> References: <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa>
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-On [19991110 00:01], Adrian Parker (jedi@brockville.com) wrote: >Perhaps someone can help me. I can. I forwarded it from -doc to -questions where it belonged in the first place. >I recently went through the FreeBSD install, or tried. Everything >worked ok accept the install via FTP. It doesn't seem to detect my >modem. It's a USR 56.6 V90 (ISA) running on comm port 2. This modem >does not seem to be detected while starting the install process (when >it checks for PnP, PCI, and ISA devices). When it tries to gather the >packages for installing the system, it doesn't dial. I use the dial >command, as request, in the 3rd Virtual Console. Soon after it returns >that the dialup is dead. Tried specifying debug mode in options and check vty2 why it flunks? >I had it dial my second phone line to verify that the modem wasn't dialing >at all. I was correct, it wasn't dialing. > >What could be wrong? I know my modem is on Comm 2. And I know it works >because I'm using it now in Win98 (it also works just fine in Linux). Is >there any way to solve this? I don't want to image copy everything to >floppy and install that way, just so that I can boot the OS and fight with >the modem settings (downloading everything is a pain on dialup). The notion that something works on Windows 98 or Linux is not a guarantee that it works under FreeBSD. It might, then again it might not. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Embrace Love, be godlike... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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