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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:34:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Glen W Mann <gmann@itw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Pentium - sio0 (and mouse) not found
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305133400.24493M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303225223.203A-100000@localhost>

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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Glen W Mann wrote:

> Summore:  The mouse is on COM1.  If I remove my modem, which is on COM2,
> Freebsd finds both ports and the mouse works.  The modem is somehow
> preventing COM1 from being accessed.  I'm lost.  What could cause this?
> With the PC I got a plug and play modem.  Freebsd doesn't seem to find
> this, though I haven't really looked into it.  Is pnp supported?  BTW the
> motherboard does have a PS/2 port but its not connected.  

See if you can force the modem to use COM2 by jumpers. PnP will be
officially supported in 2.2.6, in the meantime there are patches on the
2.2.5 CD.

Plug&pray modems bite :(

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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