From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 23:19:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A50E106566C for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF718FC18 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.75]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C942416B4B9; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:19:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:19:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:19:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <4E57F933.1080303@sentex.net> Message-ID: References: <20110826192102.GA9033@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <4E57F933.1080303@sentex.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:19:38 -0000 On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 8/26/2011 3:21 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: >>> So I am asking again: does anyone have a dialup modem of any kind which >>> works correctly on 8.x to provide ppp-on-demand? If so what is it? >> (As for promises about what *will* 100% guaranteed work, which seems to >> be what you really want, I am afraid I can't give any. It has been >> several years since I last used a dialup modem, so I don't know for >> sure what *will* work with todays software, only what should work.) > > > Works for me once umodem is loaded as a kld... bingo. ucom was in my nearly GENERIC conf, so was ubsa and some other modules mentioned. umodem wasn't - and if the line was in GENERIC or NOTES I must have deleted it for some reason instead of commenting it out. Nonetheless, locate reveals it is being built. Works when it is loaded and creates cuaU0. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266