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From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sio driver, Zoltrix internal modem woes
Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:33:09 +1100
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix
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In article <4f1vfd$aav@groa.uct.ac.za>, Sandi Donno <sandi@cs.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>Hi there
>
>I have a Zoltrix V34 internal modem which worked just fine under
>FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and works fine under DOS.
>
>Now FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't find it. Or rather, the sio probe tests 5 and 6  
>fail and all the others succeed, and thus the probe as a whole fails (I set
>flag 0x80 on so that I could see verbose diagnostics).
>
>Would the driver code break badly if I modify it to ignore the results
>of these two tests? (the modem is the only serial device I have on the
>system).

Perhaps.  The tests may fail because the modem takes longer than expected
to respond.  Future versions of the driver will have delays in some of
the tests to allow for this.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@zeta.org.au