Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:18:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel I. Bauer" <danib@esus.cs.montana.edu> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modem not detected Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905231622.7701B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01BCB936.0EFD8700@Danno.montana.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Daniel I. Bauer wrote: > During boot, my modem is not detected. In Windows 95 my modem is seen > on Com port 3 at address 0x3e8. Interrupt 5 is used. sio2 (COM3) isn't configured in the boot floppy because of conflicts with other devices. > I have tried using the -c arguement at boot, entering the above > information in, but this did not work. In the kernal file I took out > the keyword 'disable' for sio2 and during boot it is still not found. > My modem is a Plug-and-Play CPI ViVa CommCenter 33.6 > voice/speakerphone/fax modem. Yuck. Can you hard wire this by setting some jumpers? Does your BIOS support Plug&Pray directly, and could you use that to move the modem to known parameters? > How can I get FreeBSD to recognize my modem? Does Plug-and-Play confuse > FreeBSD? Is this modem not supported? It has a 16550an uart (Windows > 95 says this under diagnostics --> more info). FreeBSD doesn't understand Plug&Pray, so it's up to the modem or your BIOS to configure it. 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
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