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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Josh Emmons (skia)" <j-emmons@sjca.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modem on com1 (sio0)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021225940.4986M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961020171057.8542A-100000@whorfin.sjca.edu>

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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote:

> I have an Acer Aspire (I didn't have a choice) 28.8 modem set to com1.
> Everything works fin on the Windows95 side of things (I have 95 and BSD on
> the system), but when I go to BSD, the probe never finds sio0 ot the
> specified address.  I'm useing the same addres windows uses to find the
> modem and still nothing.
>    To make things stranger, it worked once.  Only once.  I did't change
> ANYHTING and it worked.  I rebooted and it lost it again.  haven't gotten
> it to work after that.

FreeBSD appears to be very picky about internal modems.  I see hoards of
them on this list that won't probe, while other people swear by them.  

You might try moving it to COM2 and see what you get.

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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