Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:41:16 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@terrandev.com> Cc: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@CRWdog.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Modem on Thinkpad 600? Message-ID: <20020214064116.5EF595D0C@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:59:39 EST." <3C69C88B.D5FDBA7B@terrandev.com>
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Brandon, Thanks for the pointer to the out-dated entries in the mwave package. I'll update them very shortly, probably tomorrow. (I have fixed pkg-message already and will get to Makefile tomorrow.) Sorry for missing this last time I updated the port. I am surprised that there is a need to have a phone line plugged in.as I have heard no reports of this nor have I seen it myself. Here is what I have seen: When the system is booted up to single user and mwavem is not started, the modem will not probe correctly un subsequent reboots until mwavem is run or the modem is used under Windows. If the system is shutdown with a shutdown -p, on the subsequent reboot, the device will not respond and will be listed as an 8250. This will continue until a mwavem is run before a reboot. Clearly, something is not being properly initialized in the boot/module load but is initialized by mwave. Others with system identical to mine have never seen these problems, so it may have a BIOS interaction of some sort. I have never seen mwave.ko cause problems with boot-up. There is no need to actually use the modem to clear the problems. Simply running mwavem will result in a subsequent reboot working. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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