Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 04:26:12 -0500 From: "jedi" <jedi@brockville.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: No modem? Message-ID: <001701bf2e82$51194520$b233eccf@endor>
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> > But onboard I only have 2 com ports. No matter I finally got it to dial. > > It was comm2. Nothing changed, just retried the install and it worked. > > However, now it either returns "Unacceptable Address <ip>", <ip> being the > > dynamic IP my ISP assigns me when I dial up, or something about too many > > IPCP NAPs (or NATs) sent. > > > > Adrian > > > > > > > Just because your modem is comm2 in windows doesn't me that it's the > > same in freebsd. > > > > > > What does it say on the screen at bootup about "sioX" where X is a > > number. > > > For many of us, the modem is detected as sio4 and so would be /dev/cuaa4 > > as > > > far as ppp is concerned. > > > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai [SMTP:asmodai@wxs.nl] > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 7:56 AM > > > > To: Adrian Parker > > > > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > > > > Subject: Re: No modem? > > > > > > > > -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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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