From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 23 23:24:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA05752 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA05747 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA11773; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:24:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd modem problem In-Reply-To: <9709240343.AA18263@donald.spdc.ti.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, George Vagner wrote: > I have a problem with my system at home, it is a pentium pro 200 dual > processor motherboard ( Tyan 1662) with single cpu, Matrox Millenium 4MB > WD 2.1 HDD PS/2 mouse and Sound blaster awe 32 pnp sound card, Intel > ether express 16 network card. > > Here are my problems if someone can help.. > > FreeBSD 2.2.2 > > 1. There was no listing for my network card on the installation setup > so i chose intel ether express pro/100 and naturally it dont work. > IRQ 5 i/o 320. should this driver work or do i have to remove the > sound card since it tries to sit at irq5 initially. Only the PCI Pro/100 is supported. The ISA Pro/10+ is supported, though. > 2. is there any support for the Sound blaster awe 32 PNP card. > I would like to use the sound capabilities from it. Contact multimedia@freebsd.org. You need a driver that can read the PnP info off the board and stock FreeBSD doesn't know anything about PnP yet. > 3. My modem is always flashing "fax" and when i tried to use the terminal to > dial out it tries to connect as a fax. I have to do a "ATZ" to bring it > back to normal only to have it go back into fax mode later on. > it may be initializing it somehow into fax in some config file somewhere. If you installed hylafax it is trying to init your modem. > I am completely new to unix and FreeBSD for that matter and am overwelmed > by the amount of configuration files that have to be edited. A lot of it is in /etc/rc.conf, but if you didn't hit all the areas in sysconfig you have to pick stuff up here and there, and most packages have their own config. > 4. I dont know how to set up my system in order to do this: dial internet > provider , login ,get dynamic ip address and be able to use things like > Netscape, Mosaic, Mail etc. Check out the Handbook's `Pedantic PPP Primer' for details on using the ppp program to dial up your ISP. Once you're dialed, then the network applications just follow. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo