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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 & modem Message-ID: <D1r2zF.GuH@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (Darin Wayrynen) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 23:38:02 GMT References: <Pine.3.89.9412281611.A7147-0100000@balboa.eng.uci.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Lines: 26 Stanley K. Cheong (scheong@ece.UCI.EDU) wrote: : I have an internal modem (Gateway 2000 Telepath I 14.4k) on COM 1. : FreeBSD 2.0 doesn't recognize it during boot. It basically said there is : nothing on sio0. Anyone has ideas about what to do to get my modem : recognized? I'm having the same problem with my Zoom VFP288 and 2.0; the same modem worked fine (is working fine at this very moment) with 1.1R. Any help? : Also, anyone has a script that can deal with dynamic IP address : assignment for SLIP? #!/bin/sh cu internet.provider echo "Tell the bozo on the phone to give you a dedicated IP address." ~. exit Sorry, I couldn't help myself... ;^) Does your "on-ramp" support PPP? You may want to explore that route, since PPP "supports" dynamic IP addresses during the connection establishment phase. Right?? Wes Peters