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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can't find modem... Date: 26 Sep 1995 22:17:10 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <449qkm$i7s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <440q2d$18l@senior.nectec.or.th> <441h5e$2it@crl2.crl.com> <coveDFI72s.G6A@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cove Schneider <cove@netcom.com> wrote: >: Therefore you should set the modem's irq to 9 or 5, and then >: boot -c and set sio3 appropriately. > >Just a little note to add (if my memory serves me): If the modem >is using IRQ 9, then you actually need to set it to IRQ 2. > >(If I'm wrong some one please correct me..) You are wrong. It's IRQ2 on the ISA bus, but it's hardware-remapped to IRQ9 (since IRQ2 is used for the cascade PIC), and FreeBSD knows it by its actual name IRQ9. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)