Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 23:46:22 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Modem problems solved at last! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981122234223.4286A-100000@voyager.dreamhaven.net>
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I'm not one to leave things unfinished. ;) I'd been having trouble with my dialup for quite some time now (I have a modem hooked up to my machine which I use to dial in from the outside). It turns out that some of the testing I did was not done right. The modem I had on my FreeBSD machine wouldn't connect to *anything* -- it's not just that it wouldn't connect properly within FreeBSD. It turns out the problem was that the modem's ROM needed to be re-flashed. I determined this by switching the modems on my 2 machines and attempting not to dial them to each other, but to dial each one out to a separate site. When the bad modem moved to my NT box, it couldn't dial out. I thought perhaps a flash ROM update (even though it's the same version) might help, and sure enough -- it did the trick. I didn't bother swapping back the modems, but I was able to dial out from my NT machine and connect successfully to the FreeBSD box. Once again, I wish to thank the people on this list who helped me out (or at least *tried* to :) ). You all are constantly a great sorce of advice and information. Cheers! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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