From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 5:25:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117861513E for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 05:25:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.225.117]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAF1B66; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:25:42 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA04322; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:55:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:55:37 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Adrian Parker Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No modem? Message-ID: <19991113135537.J3947@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <000b01bf2b00$17999a00$129ed0d8@chirpa> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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 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