From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 12:29:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8EC16A4C0 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049A43FE1 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289F51C8A4C; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:27:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:27:02 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063481222 X-Sasl-enc: 2BtXxaMbfgSQY/YQl6hP6A Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.64.92.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.64.92]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D0B1C833F; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:26:58 -0400 (EDT) To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com, Alex , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:26:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3115 cc: raindogs_1@yahoo.com Subject: Re: yet another newbie ppp/modem question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:29:19 -0000 On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:14:45 -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > If your modem is external, maybe you have com1 & com2 disabled in > the PC bio's. If PCI modem them and you are not using com1,2 ports > then you should disable there bio's so modem can use them. One > other thing FBSD does not work with winmodems, those cheap modems > manufactured just for MS/Windows market. You can use 'TIP' console > command to talk directly to modem. If PCI modem check > /var/run/dmesg.log to see if FBSD found your modem. > > Post more info on what you have done to debug, describe your modem > type. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alex > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:11 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: raindogs_1@yahoo.com > Subject: yet another newbie ppp/modem question > > I'm having some trouble getting my modem up and running on > FreeBSD 4.8. A search through the mailing list archives shows > that many of the problems I've been wrestling with seem to have > cropped up before, yet I haven't been able to follow any of the > discussion to a workable answer. > > My modem is sitting on cuaa2 and I needed to re-compile my kernel > to recognize that port. I did this and everything went fine, > although I am getting the dreaded "sio5: configured irq 2 not in > bitmap of probed irqs 0" error which I haven't found a solution > for in any documentation or discussion. [snip] Have a look at this tutorial: Since the article was written, an additional requirement has been added in order to connect to the Internet using dialup: the dialup user must be added to the "dialer" group. Jud