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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internal modem problem
Date: 23 Dec 1995 13:53:09 GMT
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marcos@uni2a.unige.ch (F. Marcos) writes:
> I've just installed 2.1R.
> 
> Everything is fine (now) but ... FBSD is not able to find my modem.
> 
> It's an internal Supra 288.

Unfortunately, many internal modems do only a half-hearted job in
implementing the UART interface.  The sio driver however convinces
itself by various tests that it's being faced with a real UART.

You could try to omit some of the sio probe tests and see if you can
live with it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)