From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 27 13:47:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20620 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 13:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20615 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 13:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hot1.auctionfever.com (slip129-37-195-113.nc.us.ibm.net [129.37.195.113]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA48612 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:47:30 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem problems Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:49:31 GMT Message-ID: <33dbb1b6.318235@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <19970726201841.20682@goof.com> <33dd94bb.3095243@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> <19970727151851.49300@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <19970727151851.49300@goof.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA20616 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:18:51 -0400, you wrote: > I'll yank this POS SB 32 PnP card and try it at irq 5. >Unfortunately, I can't get the damn thing to stay at irq 10 under >FreeBSD. Maybe that could be a solution. I'll try using the >modem at IRQ 9 and see if it works. At that point, I'm not sure >which way to turn. Any thoughts? Thanks for the response. One of my machines had a Soundblaster 16 in it for a while, and every so often, during bootup the BIOS would report a floppy drive failure. I swapped floppy drives, the power supply, even the motherboard trying to figure out what was wrong, but nothing helped. Then one day I took out the Soundblaster, and the problem has since disappeared. Flakey hardware can produce all sorts of strange problems via unwanted feedback, undervoltages, overvoltages, etc. John