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From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Modem Woes....Something Drastic???
Date: 13 Dec 94 19:27:05
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In-reply-to: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu's message of Mon, 12 Dec 1994 04:26:53 GMT

In article <D0oKCt.ntA@ns1.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes:

>   So far I know of 4 people who have had serious modem problems:
>    - sio not recognized on startup
>    - able to dial (and hear the connect) but unable to sustain the connection

What version of FreeBSD are you running?

>   After many days of bleary-eyed configuration and kernel hacking, I've
>   come to the tentative conclusion that the sio driver is flawed.  Some
>   of the comments lead me to believe that there is serious work
>   currently being performed on the driver....Is that true?

No, to my knowledge the serious work was performed around last May or June,
between FreeBSD v 1.1 and 1.1.5.

>   What is the current state of the sio driver?

It works fine, in my opinion.

>   Has anyone been using it to complete satisfaction?  (I assume so or I
>   would have seen a blizzard of problem reports.)

Yes.

							- Gene Stark