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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!xara.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!casper.cs.uct.ac.za!sandi From: sandi@cs.uct.ac.za (Sandi Donno) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sio driver, Zoltrix internal modem woes Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:10:07 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4f4oif$kk9@groa.uct.ac.za> References: <4f1vfd$aav@groa.uct.ac.za> <4f3tpl$p8l@godzilla.zeta.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) In <4f3tpl$p8l@godzilla.zeta.org.au> bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes: >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. Turns out I had to move my Zoltrix modem to my 33MHz 486DX because I needed a modem in that machine that can have its IRQ set to 2 (the modem was initially in my 16MHz 386SX). Now the probe tests all pass. The poor little 386SX was obviously causing the delays in responding. Sandi Donno